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Building a CDR/CD-RW Appliance?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-phillips-et-all-can-do-it... dept.

Fafhrd asks: "My father has developed a new hobby: He records music shows from his satellite dish TV, digitizes the music, and burns a CD to listen in his car. We tried digitizing to the computer as the show runs, but it's cumbersome, as we have to drag the computer across rooms to plug the dish box's Audio-Out into the sound board's Audio-In. So, I'm planning to build a device to do it for him. Just a ATX baby board with sound, a CD-RW and a big HD. Any ideas on what hardware is the best for this? Where can I find a case compact enough to house it, and not look out of place beside the VCR and the dish set-top box?"

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  1. Re:A few thoughts... by SEWilco · · Score: 3

    A book-sized PC does sound about right. A Google search for "book pc" shows several sources. I see that EZ-BookPC has several pretty devices, including some with video outputs.

  2. BookPC by stienman · · Score: 3

    You can get a bookPC without the cpu and memory for under two hundred, which looks nice next to the other audio/video components, and runs fairly cool. Drop a cdr into that, write your own app and you're done. Best of all, most book PCs output video so you can write your own tv controller app, and use a remote to program it.

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