[Cialug] Media Center...

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>wrote:

>
> I was going to suggest a Silicondust HDHomerun as well.  But I was
> wondering about the age of the optiplex.  The HDHomerun is for HD only.  It
> doesn't work with my mythtv setup because my machines aren't powerful enough
> .  I have used it with OTA and I can confirm it works.
>
>
How fast are your machines? I wasn't aware that it required much horsepower
to use that. Or is it just the playback of HD content? I was thinking about
getting one of these soon.

Regarding video cards, I bought one like this for my standard def tv, it's
low profile and it has svideo and dvi out.



> -Nate
>
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of jrnosee
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:59 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Media Center...
>
> Given you want netflix I'd suggest windows 7 home premium (inc. Win media
> center.)  Not knowing your optiplex I'm going to wish you luck on finding a
> graphics card that will do what you want, but then again I'm used to my work
> optiplex with half-height cards so I doubt hdmi would be an option in one
> like mine.  For a tuner I HIGHLY recommend an HDHomerun.  Works great with
> my cable.  Anyone else tried these with OTA?  I think they're ATSC capable.
> Otherwise for windows I have a pinnacle PCTV HD card that works fine.  A
> warning though, I never got it to work right with a linux system.
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