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

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

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
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale


_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale