[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/13/2013 05:27 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> Cheap is easy... cheap and high quality a bit harder.... cheap, high 
> quality, small, and efficient is almost impossible.
>
> I would just pick up a used small form factor computer that has a 
> 64bit Intel or AMD CPU and a PCI Express slot and get an NVidia 
> card... if your patient you could have a frontend with Advanced 2x 
> deinterlacing for under $100.
>
> But it may not be silent or super efficient.

But then again a drill and long(er) audio/video/remote receiver cables 
is a cheap way to make a large/ugly/loud frontend into an "invisible" 
frontend by sticking it in another room or closet or cabinet.

Mike