<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:05 AM, P.J. Trudell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pjtrudell@yahoo.com">pjtrudell@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Can anyone give me a suggestion and/or a parts list for a good front end my wife will approve of for the bedroom TV. I would like a quite (maybe fan less) and small (preferable attachable to the back of a TV) front end only to play HDTV 1080p streamed from a back end. My top priority is spouse approval. I can either build it or buy a system to install. A bonus would be to use it as a second back end with a HD-PVR.</div>
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<div>It is hard to tell from the compatible parts list (<a href="http://mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv.org</a>) what will be successful. I looked at maybe a polywell system and a acer nettop, but I am not sure what will actually work with the hardware requirements of streaming hd.</div>
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<div>Here are my top priorities in order</div>
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<div>Plays HD live or recorded from Back end.</div>
<div>Quite - virtually no sound (location bedroom)</div>
<div>Looks good. i.e. small maybe even attaches to the back of the TV.</div>
<div>DVD player</div>
<div>Could possibly be used as a secondary back end.</div>
<div>Price <$500-600 usd</div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br>The revo fits, apart from no dvd drive and it's far too cheap at US$199.00<br><br>But you have to consider, do you need a dvd drive? rip and stream?<br>
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