[mythtv-users] what's the current favorite mini-{i, a}tx for hdtv out (vga or DVI)

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Sun Feb 4 00:08:42 UTC 2007


Reza Naima wrote:
> Which motherboard are you using?

You can find my configuration here 
<http://home.san.rr.com/benderfamily/network/mythtv/>.

The motherboard is no longer available from newegg. As a result, friends 
have replaced the motherboard with the ASUS M2NPV-VM 
<http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131014> and the 
appropriate AM2 socketed Athlon 64 3200+ CPU 
<http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103031>.

> As far as the Mac Mini's go, it sounded great, but not being able to
> output 1080i resultion is a deal breaker.  Is there any chance of this
> improving?
> 
> The Epia EX seems very promising, but I'm not sure when that's going to
> come out.  It's even got component video out!
> 
> Reza
> 
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:02:25PM -0800, Paul Bender sent me this...
>> Reza Naima wrote:
>>> Nope, My bad.  Anything is fine.  
>> For my front ends, I use an NVIDIA 6150 based Micro ATX motherboard with 
>> an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU. This system handles HDTV playback without 
>> using XvMC. With a case, 1024MB of memory and a DVD drive, a front end 
>> is less than $400 US. My front ends do not have hard disks because they 
>> boot over the network.
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