<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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There's always the Russian option - most TVs these days actually have tuners in them. If someone wants to watch Live TV then perhaps they could do exactly that? It's the same signal that goes to all the tuners in the cupboard, after all. And it saves recording and viewing something you probably didn't want to save anyway, while myth carries on recording all the important stuff.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span><br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I refer my honourable friend to the 2nd & 3rd (full) paragraphs of my original message from some moments ago.<br><br>But to recap: having just purchased a new TV (finally) capable of tuning a small subset of the channels coming thru the wire, my U.S. cable operator (Comcast) will shortly be removing any chance of me tuning them, without renting some kind of box from them. In my mind, better a one time up-front investment (of a another frontend, and running network cable) than a recurring monthly charge to Comcrap, minimal though it might be (probably $1.99/month) for an HD-DTA. With the added benefit of being able to watching anything in the bedroom, not just live TV.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Of course, I have ulterior motives to "upgrade"...as I would rotate to the bedroom (to serve this new TV) an existing Mini-ITX Atom/ION2 setup (with optical drive so DVD's playback is covered), and then buy a new one to replace its current location in the office, probably a Mini-ITX Core i3/5, which could have other power uses as well (comflagging, transcoding, etc). The master backend is a (low wattage) triple core Athlon-II, but in my mind it doesn't hurt to spend a few more bucks when building another system to have something to lessen the load for peak activities.<br>
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