<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Albert Graham</b> <<a href="mailto:agraham@g-b.net">agraham@g-b.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Christopher X. Candreva wrote:<br>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Albert Graham wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> I think when people setup MythTV backend they'd rather use modern<br>
>> powerful hardware (as best they can afford).<br>>><br>><br>> Speak for yourself : I would rather use whatever I can scrounge up for free<br>> that will do the job. :-)<br>><br>> And I did.<br>
><br>Christopher,<br><br>You're clearly a resourceful man :), but I know what you mean, I have<br>about 40 CDROM drives, 100's of old hard drives, tons of multi-function<br>cards, millions of network cards etc.., but then you change your<br>
motherboard or something and they're all useless, but that's progress<br>for you.<br><br>I think MythTV is one of the very best apps out there and well worth<br>investing in good hardware - which hopefully will last a few years<br>
before it's on the scrap heap.<br><br>Albert.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>
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<div><br>I have gone Christopher's route. Mythtv has certainly transformed how we watch television in our house, but it would never have happened it didn't run well on my old hardware. I think it is a great application to help keep old machines out of the scrap heap longer. My current combo BE/FE is a six or seven year old PC that can record two sd streams and play a third without a hitch.</div>
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<div>Likewise, when I start doing HD playback I intend to make my current desktop (four years old) a dedicated frontend.</div>
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<div>Sorry for the useless list traffic, I just wanted to let Christopher know that he isn't alone running MythtTV on dated hardware.</div>
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<div>-Mark</div>