[mythtv-users] Cheap Possible Frontend

[Brian Wood]

On May 8, 2006, at 2:38 PM, dick at photoclerk.com wrote:

>
> Yeah, HD won't work, but 480i works great.  I've got three front- 
> ends in
> my house at the moment.  The one in the living room is hooked up to  
> my HD
> TV, so the resolution is 1280x1024, but I'm only playing 480i signal
> through it.  The visualizations for mythmusic are dreadful at  
> 1280x1024,
> but it doesn't bother me much...
>
> Last time I bought these I got a lot of 10 through ebay for $800.   
> They
> were actually the 1GHz boxes, same case.  I kept a couple and sold the
> rest to friends/family trying to build myth boxes.  They make a great
> frontend/backend for single-tuner installs.

But I'm still wondering if you can get decent MPEG-4 playback. That  
requires more CPU horsepower than MPEG-2. Unless it can do MPEG-4  
than I'll stick with my MediaMVP.