<p>I have had good luck with a Zotac zbox ion d525. Its tiny, almost perfectly silent. I have it setup as the primary FE/secondary BE. It is recording 2 programs from my HD HOMERUN to USB drive. Playback with vdpau, 1080 is fine. Commflag jobs run quickly while I'm asleep. I got mine with DVD player, probably should have spring for blue Ray... Control it with mythmote, or simple mce remote. Now using a xmas gift harmony 700 instead of mce.<br>
I will say it seemed to playback better in .24 than it does now in .25. I'm still on fence about .25, seems buggy.<br>
Initial setup of the zotac ( in .24) had me searching internet for settings for about a week though.<br>
Good luck with whatever you choose .<br>
Chris</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 4, 2012 8:13 PM, "MonkeyPet" <<a href="mailto:monkeypet@gmail.com">monkeypet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Anyone have a suggestion? I want a quiet mythtv frontend capable of doing 1080p. Fanless is preferred, but if it is really quiet that will be okay. Small enough to be set top box. Also want it cheap so I can buy multiple. No I don't want media players since I already own two and I also like the commercial skip feature of mythfrontend. Also I don't want to use samba or upnp to access the mythtv backend. Just want to run the mythfrontend in all its glory.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks.</p>
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