[mythtv-users] dreaming hardware configuration

[Robert Kulagowski]

> Then for the frontends I'd look at SBC's (Single Board Computers) or
> something like the shuttle. (Basically small) However in the end I
> would probably end up building my own enclosure. Oh and all the
> frontends would be diskless and fanless except for possibly a dvd
> drive. Although with all that storage, I would probably just rip my
> entire dvd collection and have real video on demand!

If you don't need a DVD drive, then I really like the Hauppauge MVP1000. 
  It's quite cheap (got mine for $82 from buy.com), but you can only do 
MPEG-1/2.  Boots via tftp, uses one of those 12V wall-warts.  And it's 
really quite tiny.

http://mvpmc.sf.net