jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Nov 27 15:10:32 CST 2010
Mike, That looks like an awesome media extender for sure. Because of what I do, I have parts laying around, and so building another box is less onerous to me. I decided to build a "professional grade" HTPS to go in the master bedroom, but my total cost is around $430. Of that, $80 was for the 2 GB hard drive and $120 was for the dual TV tuner. Both of those are things I would be purchasing anyway. My current HTPC has a single channel tuner and I am constantly hitting the "can't watch this because I am recording that" issue. Beyond that all I needed to buy was a case, PS and MB - the total for which was around $210. I have processors, memory and windows 7 licenses lying around. If I had to pay for all that I would be canceling my order and buying a popcorn hour. In fact I might buy one anyway for the family room downstairs. When I bought the TV for the master bedroom, I moved an old "all in one" 19" TV, VCR and DVD downstairs. At the rate that TVs are dropping, I will probably go get a 32" TV for downstairs, at which point the Popcorn hour will make it all work. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 11/26/2010 1:08 PM, Michael Bahr wrote: > Just fond this on Youtube > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ippnPw-KMbI&feature=player_embedded#! > > Mike...