<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">(I'm sure I posted this a couple of days ago, but I haven't seen it appear, so please excuse the re-post)...<div><br><div><div>On 20 Jul 2011, at 19:43, Brian J. Murrell wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On 11-07-20 02:17 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The same can be said with a CPU with a big slow fan.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sure. But I never even mentioned fan noise in my original posting so<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">all of this is quite moot with the exception that a big slow fan would<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">however defeat my requirement of being able to tuck a small<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Revo-like-form-factor machine behind a TV hanging on a wall.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">A MiniITX board is no larger than a Revo, but the problem is the IO panel<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and heatsink thickness. Unless you're intending to mount the TV directly<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to the wall,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yup.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">As far as decoding, yes. It should be able to handle broadcast MPEG2 and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">H264, as well as any content you get off of Bluray. As mentioned though,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">it lacks some of post processing capabilities. <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">And relative maturity. :-)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">b.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mythtv-users mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote><br>I'm running 2 of the Acer Aspire Revos R3700's as hi-def FE's (1080i, not Blu-ray though), and one as a std-def FE/BE (present for a friend), and I'm happy with them. They seem pretty quiet, the one in my bedroom seems to exhibit a bit more fan noise than my main one; but that could be because it's stood on a hollow box. In the UK they're an 'exclusive' from ebuyer (<a href="http://www.ebuyer.com/revo?gclid=CJvGgr_NkKoCFRRc4QodUH64xw">http://www.ebuyer.com/revo?gclid=CJvGgr_NkKoCFRRc4QodUH64xw</a>) at £200.00<br><br>Observations so far...<br>1. No IR, so needs an external IR receiver and remote. I'm using £20 mceusb ones from maplin;<br>2. Can't turn on with IR signal, so power button needs to be accessible - though my main one is turned on via wake-on-lan, triggered from a DHCP request from the TV when it is turned on)<br>3. Of the 3 systems I use, none of the TV's have the right VESA mounting for the Revo bracket. However as the Revo doesn't seem to clip firmly into the bracket, not a loss<br>4. With mythbuntu 0.24/1 fixes; the PIP is performing badly - lots of 'break-up' in the PIP image. I suspect this is because the Revo's come with 1x2Gb ram, rather than 2x1Gb. Doesn't worry me since I don't use PIP. I might swap the ram in one of the systems for 2x1Gb to see if that sorts it, but probably not any time soon.<br>5. No dvd drive; I used an external usb dvd to install mythtv.<br><br></div><div>I regard the above as very minor things; and I'm happy with them overall</div><div><br></div><div>-- Paul --</div></div></div></body></html>