[mythtv-users] Mac Mini and Broadcom Crystal HD PCI Express mini-card
Jeff Wormsley
daworm at comcast.net
Sat Jan 2 05:46:52 UTC 2010
Brian Wood wrote:
> That solution, and my using old thin clients, both depend on having old
> hardware hanging around.
>
> If buying new today, I still think the Revo, or some other ION solution, is
> probably the best way to go. $200 for a hardware-accelerated HD-capable
> frontend seems pretty good.
>
Yes, and I'm doing that for one of my other frontends, with a Zotac
IONITX board with the laptop supply, no fans, and if I can get
netbooting figured out, no hard drive. I have a lot of TV's and not
many frontends and nowhere near the budget I had before I got married.
The AppleTV is a tad better than the Zotac for me for one reason,
though. It has analog TV outputs so that I can use it on an older SD
set and still be able to play back the HD stuff I'm recording. The
Zotac is VGA or HDMI or DVI-D only.
Jeff.
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