[mythtv-users] Perfect, Small, Quiet, Cheap, HD Frontend??
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Wed Feb 27 02:51:18 UTC 2008
Sarah Hayes wrote:
> Jarett Creason wrote:
>
>> Everex is going to sell these on NewEgg, supposedly, March 1st... So,
>> anyone have any input on whether this would play 1080i and 720p HD
>> content? It comes loaded with their gOS, but I assume, since it's all
>> standard hardware, that one could easily load another distro of their
>> choice on it??
>>
> Looks interesting, although from the form factor I doubt you could add a
> PCI sound card to it for 5.1+ audio. Assuming it'll boot from the
> optical drive (or flipped to do so in it's BIOS) you should be able to
> install whatever you wanted on it.
>
But for $499 it seems really pricy for what it is. I have a flyer from
Dell for something that specs out similar, and comes with a 20" LCD for
$450.
Newegg better offer a honking discount if this is to fly.
--Yan
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