<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I know that this has been beat into the ground -- I love the MythTV FE but I sure wish that there was a cheap way (<$100) to run it for the occasional TV (guest room, etc).<br>
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Is there any work going toward porting MythFE to non-X86 architectures?<br>
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I have a crummy Plex interface running in the guest room now but would love to have the REAL DEAL.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I have never understood the difficulty with finding cheap frontends... I could find you three for $100 easy. For example: <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-DC7100-SFF-Desktop-Pent-4-3-0GHz-40GB-HDD-1GB-RAM-DVDROM-NO-OS-S-/221191905156?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item3380109f84" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-DC7100-SFF-Desktop-Pent-4-3-0GHz-40GB-HDD-1GB-RAM-DVDROM-NO-OS-S-/221191905156?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item3380109f84</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I had nearly identical hardware as my primary frontend for the longest time, and worked almost as well as my current custom built $400 frontend. I'd probably still be using it if my wife didn't take issue with the appearance, of course it was a large Dell GX280 mid-tower so I can't blame her.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ok, I realize I was a bit over zealous saying 3 for $100... After shipping your looking at $40-$50 per workstation. Add a few bucks for an ADD2 DVI board to add a DVI port, and a DVI-HDMI cable (<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silicon-Orion-ADD2-N-DualPAD-PCI-E-DVI-D-Adapter-Card-P-N-Sil-SC-0066-B1-TMP-/400290950464?pt=US_Video_Cables_Adapters&hash=item5d33332d40" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silicon-Orion-ADD2-N-DualPAD-PCI-E-DVI-D-Adapter-Card-P-N-Sil-SC-0066-B1-TMP-/400290950464?pt=US_Video_Cables_Adapters&hash=item5d33332d40</a>) and your still well under $100. Many of these kind of computers, not sure about the linked model, even have headers on the motherboard for SPDIF, if digital audio is important to you.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Any Pentium 4 2.8GHz or better should have no trouble playing US Broadcast HD streams using CPU alone. And if you want you can always make it even better with a cheap NVIDIA card (say a used GT520) and still put a single system together for under $100.</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Are you willing to go used? You can easily get under a $100 for a HD capable frontend. The trick is when you want it tiny and quiet or silent. All my used Zotac ZBOX ID11 setups are very quiet and were under $150 completely setup.<br>
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