[mythtv-users] Moving to HD

[Brad Fuller]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 15:57, Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Too me, it looks as though you would only have to upgrade your
graphics card to one of the newest (e.g. 9800GT) so you can get the
latest drivers and move all video processing to the card.

I don't know if there is a fanless 9800, be nice if someone could say.
They seem to be loud, in my estimation.

>
> 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?


HD-PVR might be a good option for Dish if your STB has component out.
I'm not up on the latest, though. Others will chime in.


> 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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