[mythtv-users] Multiple frontends/backend storage with digital boxes

[shec0002 at shecks.net]

If you are looking for a thin, lower power, almost silent client check out
the linpvr.org project.  I have two backend machines in my basement, and
one diskless thin client under my TV.  My thinclient front-end is great,
and the onboard decoder is smooth.  I would be happy to help if you were
interested in this sort of configuration.

My thin client was less then $300 to build.
VIA EPIA Nehemiah M10000 1Ghz All In One Motherboard
512MB PC133 DIMM
Morex Cubid 3688 Mini-ITX Case - Silver

Others have added PVR-250s to machines like this, but I don't have the
cash for another one yet.

>You can go *really* thin on the frontend, even so far as to go diskless and
>boot from Compact Flash. For somewhere in the neighborhood of  ~$350-400USD
>each, you could put together frontend machines considerably smaller than
>your current digital cable boxes.Get yourself any small form-factor machine
>with a CF slot

>> I'd like my pcs located next to my tvs to be as thin of clients as
>> possible.