<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Let me start by saying that I've been running MythTV for a number of months, so this isn't really a newbie question. I'm running a single Myth box on Fedora Core 4 with a PVR-350. I used Jarod's guide to get it going, which made it a breeze (albeit somewhat time consuming.) Now I'm getting ready to build an entirely new multi-room system, and I'm struggling to decide how to do it. Below is what I have in mind with a few questions. Experienced insight would be appreciated.<br><br>In the family room, I'll have a Myth system hooked up to an LCD monitor and sound system (mid-range stuff.) It'll be used for TV and music, nothing more. But this is also the room where I can easily put a larger system without it being in the way of the room. Over in the kitchen I'll have another system with a small 19" LCD monitor, and this will be used for TV as well as web browsing and email and phone. Initially, I only want two encoders.<br><br>So my initial thought was to make the family room system the backend and run all of the encoders in there. (PVR500?) The frontend in the kitchen wouldn't have an encoder. But I don't like the idea of ugly homemade IR devices or the unnecessary cost for a decent commercial IR remote & receiver. Would it just make more sense to put a PVR 150 in each system to use the remotes with the encoders? I am leaning towards this now.<br><br>I'm also leaning towards using FC4 again (I looked at Knoppmyth, but their forums say to stay away from USB keyboard/mouse and SATA drives--a bit disconcerting of a notice in the year 2005.) Does anybody who has set up multiple integrated Myth boxes have better suggestions? Thanks for all input -- much appreciated.<br><br></div></body></html>