<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Zuriel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elpinkus@yahoo.com">elpinkus@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">The Zotac Atom/Ion boxes deserve a mention in this thread. They're fairly slim and quiet. Mine works well.<br>
<br>The plain vanilla Atom ones won't have the grunt for HD video and driver support isn't there yet for the new AMD based ones, though the E-350 has enough power for mpeg2 and mpeg4 1080i software decoding so long as you don't pick an 'increased CPU requirements' deinterlacer.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>So I probably shouldn't even be posting to this thread without a much better exploration of the options, but have you considered something like a laptop for the FE? There's some pretty significant power in today's laptops and the dell on my desk is only about 2" thick which I think could probably slip in behind the TV without too much problem. You've got to worry a bit about heat build up as some laptops are pretty significant heat producers but I'd think from a hideable HTPC solution a laptop would fit just about every consideration you could come up with.<br>
<br>And the secondary benefit is you can always yank it from behind the TV when you want to do an Upgrade and it has the built in screen and keyboard all self contained...you can work locally and output the DVI or whatever connection you want when you want to display.<br>
<br>Tertiary benefit is you can always use a local laptop harddrive for partial storage and then take it with you (plus cables) if you want to take your recordings on the road with you. No, you wouldn't be able to use Myth to replay them, but you could still use Xine or MPlayer or something.<br>
<br>Again, apologies if this comes across as an idiotic or unlearned solution to this request...It's almost Midnight and I'm tired, I might be forgetting something obvious. :)<br><br>--Doug<br>