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

[Geoffrey]

lance crocker 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 )

Do not, under any circumstances, put money in M$'s pocket, even though 
they are losing money on the Xbox.

> 
> 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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Think about it...

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