[mythtv-users] Cheap and quiet hardware for SD MythTV - possible?

[Richard Morton]

you can. all you need is this

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=53

Zotac ION-ITX-A Wi-Fi Dual Core 1.6GHz Atom N330 Mini-ITX Board with DC
Input
£159

plus a hard disc and a bit of ram (which you just said you had lying
around).

no case *required* although maybe desired...

PSU is included.

I think I would net boot it off a master backend.

R



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2009/7/30 Stroller <stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

>
> On 30 Jul 2009, at 20:44, Simon Hobson wrote:
>
>> Stroller wrote:
>>
>>  My mum's Freeview box has just died - since a replacement is £30, I
>>> started thinking about a PVR instead. Off the shelf ones are £80 to £100 and
>>> this naturally started me thinking about MythTV, but I'm a bit stumped on
>>> how to do MythTV without doubling the price.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> it's kinda a shame the hardware options don't seem to have improved much
>>> in the last couple of years [1]. Or am I missing something?
>>>
>>
>> Realistically, you aren't going to build a Myth system for less than you
>> can buy an off the shelf box. I doubt if anyone involved has ever thought
>> about it as a cost saving effort - more as a means of getting better
>> features without the lock in to be found on many boxes.
>>
>
> Sorry, I thought it was obvious I didn't want to BEAT the price of one of
> these cheapo units. But I thought to be able to do better than TWICE the
> price. Particularly because one will always have a spare hard-drive lying
> around, and maybe RAM, too.
>
> I guess I was hoping for the £120 - £140 range, buying cheap low-power PC
> components.
>
> It'd obviously be really nice if I had found a cheap set-top-box that could
> be hacked for MythTV, and Neuros OSD seems like the right price, but it
> looks like it's maybe at a bit of a dead end?
>
> In this case, quality isn't of the highest priority. Composite out is fine,
> but DVI/HDMI would be really nice for future-proofing. It only has to do SD,
> and a single tuner.
>
> If it's price-comparable with the £60 Atom-based board(s?) currently
> available then the "first ION board with PCI socket" post looks ideal, but
> only if I can find a case which isn't silly money.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
>
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