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

[lance crocker]

Well, I probably will have the time to do both. The only thing that I am in
need of is money.

Lance

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From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Chris
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Fowler
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 4:08 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] semi OT: ideas about building a PVR/XPC


If you have time on your hands, build the XPC.  If you do not have the
time, then buy an XPC that is built and working.


On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:06, 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 )
>
> 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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