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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am so excited about MythTV and plan to start building this
weekend.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>At first I am going to build on box to serve both the front
end and back end. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I still have a few remaining questions.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>First my Hardware:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For the Computer itself I acquired a Emachine T2865.
It is a 2800 Athlon XP, 512Meg Ram, 160 Gig HD, onboard NVidia GeForce4 MX
Graphics.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have 2 WinTV PVR 250’s for Cable and 1 old WinTV “Home
Theater Editions” for S-Video/composite Capture.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My TV is a 4:3 HD ready Toshiba. I plan to connect it
to a device such as:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.pacificcable.com/Picture_Page.asp?DataName=9A60">http://www.pacificcable.com/Picture_Page.asp?DataName=9A60</a>
so that I don’t have to convert the signal.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I plan to run my TV off the NVidia Video card. Since
the Nvidia Driver doesn’t support interlacing I can’t run at 1080i
(Right?). So I assume the best resolution I will get is 720p (by setting the desktop
size to 1280x720) for 16:9 content and 480p for 4:3. Does MythTV change
the resolution automatically based on the content it is showing? If not
how does this work? Can I leave it at one resolution and will Myth resize
the content accordingly?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My last question when playing MP3’s with Myth, how doe
the visualizations compare to that of iTunes? Dumb question? Well
yes, but iTunes has the ability to quite a 8 month old crying baby. And
let me tell you something, there is real value in that!!! ;-) Are they
good or are they as lame as M$ Media Player’s. On that note as well
when using the slideshow application can you play MP3’s in the
background?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks for all your help. If you see any holes in my
plan please let me know!</span></font></p>
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Sincerely,<br>
Vince</span></font></p>
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