[mythtv-users] Moving to HD

[Thom Paine]

I just picked up an HD tv, and have upgraded my Bell satellite to HD
as well. I have just powered off my myth system as I bought a hard
drive for the satellite to make it into a PVR.

I've been using it for about a week and it's a complete pos. I guess I
am spoiled by how awesome myth is.

I have a backend in the basement where my noise is kept out of sight,
and I have a small frontend upstairs on my main tv which is low power
and quiet.

Specs on the BE is a 2.8GHz P4 with 1G of ram, and about 2TB of hard
drive space lvm'd over a few drives.

Specs on the FE is an AMD 3GHz with 1G ram, 80G laptop drive, nVidia FX5200.

My capture card in the BE is a Happauge 350. I realize I'll need to
replace this to move to HD.

With only picking up an HD card for the BE, would I be able to move to
HD on my system and have it work ok?

I will move my satellite to the basement, and just have myth control
it and manage recordings, and then only watch recorded shows on my FE
which is on my 40" Sony Bravia.

Will the FE drive my TV at 1920x1080? Do I need to pick up a new video
card for that as well? The one main reason I'd like to keep the FX5200
is because it's fanless and I like how quiet my FE is.

It's time to overhaul my myth setup so I'm planning on wiping
everything and starting new on CentOS back and front.

Thanks.

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-=/>Thom