<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Bobby Gill wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Thanks a lot for the recommendations. I just found the MVP: <a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html</a> It looks like the perfect solution. So for my still intermediate self to be clear, I plug the MVP via ethernet to my server in the basement (already have a few long ethernet cables going from basement to upstairs), plug the MVP into the TV and voila, the TV = frontend? I assume it's like Video 1 or something, one of the video inputs?</span></div></div></blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div><br><div>Not exactly a frontend. You can play back video, but you can only watch video, listen to music and maybe view pictures? You can't do anything else a frontend can do.. commercial skipping, schedule/delete recordings, use any other plugin, mark program as Watched when you've watched it, etc.</div></body></html>