[ale] semi OT: ideas about building a PVR/XPC

[lance crocker]

that sounds really cool. i will have to watch this one and see the
modifications they add to it.


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From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Calvin
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Harrigan
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 4:49 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] semi OT: ideas about building a PVR/XPC


Build a XPC,  take a look at the following...

http://www.mythtv.org


At 04:06 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I am planning on building a PVR ( Personal video recorder - like Tivo ), an
>XPC ( Multimedia entertainment PC that will hockup to my TV and home
>theater ), or some sort of combination.
>
>I have thought of two basic choices for this attempt.
>
>1. Buy an Xbox, hack it and install Xbox linux on it ( roughly around
$300 )
>
>or
>
>2. Build an XPC using current high end PC hardware  ( roughly around
$1700 )
>
>The Xbox idea is cheap but not very upgradable. The XPC idea is more
>expensive but also more upgradable and mroe useful.
>
>Have any of you guys ever built anything like this? Have any suggestions
>like recommeneded hadrware? software? OS? stuff like that?
>
>I would really appreciate some input as I have just started seriously
>thinking about this.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Lance
>
>
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