[mythtv-users] Revo 1600 looks even better now

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 12:05:23 pm Greg Oliver wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> > John Drescher wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> >>> Brian Wood wrote:
>> >>>> So now I can use the Ion's VDPAU capability, or, when the CrystalHD
>>
>> The only real thing that irks me about the revo is the hdd.  Both of
>> mine are actually PATA, and there are not sata connectors internally.
>> Not a big deal, I just use the drive to keep the (compressed) original
>> XP install (in case I need to sell it one day).  Although it woul dbe
>> nice to have the opportunity to netboot and throw a sata 1TB drive in
>> there if I chose to...
>
> Hmmm, mine has a SATA drive in it (WD1600BEVT), and obviously a SATA connector
> for it.

Yeah, I evidentally started drinking early that day.  Man I'm glad I
just re-checked one of them.  I have been brewing over this for a
couple of months to find out I was just confusing it with some other
machine here somewhere :)

> Do you have the E-SATA connector, that would imply a SATA bus internally.
>
> I'm not sure if you could sell the XP license, it's probably tied to that
> particular hardware, but IANAL (nor am I a cryptologist, which is probably
> what you would need to understand the MS license). I tried to get my license
> fee refunded, but got bogged down in red tape, which is probably just what
> they hope and expect to happen.

Yeah, I am referring to selling the whole pc..  Since they did not
come with installation media, and I did not want to waste space on
another machine, I just compressed, and then resized it.  I did not
look closely at the "vista loader" partition on it, but I assume it is
a quick factory restore partition.  In that case, I could delete the
entire XP install, but I played it safe since I did not know I was
going to keep it at the time..  I'm happy with everything except the
"very" non-uniform performance when resuming play from fast forward or
rewind.  I am currently trying differing nice levels on lirc, and
mythfrontend trying to get it somewhat predictable.  My family is used
to getting within 10 seconds of the spot they want with our other
dvrs, but the slow machine (I guess it is to blame) sometimes misses
by 3 minutes, while sometimes it is spot on..

-Greg