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Step By Step: Building a MythTV PVR for $635
hesby writes "Anandtech has just published the first half of a two-part article on building a MythTV PVR that they will ultimately compare with Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition on very similar hardware. As a result, they selected some components that the average user might not choose, just to keep things fair in the second part, where they pit the two PVRs head to head."
understood, but it's based on the newer athlon cores with less cache, whereas the athlon xp.. well you get the picture. the question is why use a sempron-based system, when an athlon xp system can still be built cheaper?
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Press pause while watching something that's already recorded, and the next thing you know you have to wait 4 minutes for it to reboot.
Dude I've had a couple of RTVs for a while now and neither of them have ever done this. Sounds like your unit is flaking out. I would open it up and blow all the dust out - might be a shorting problem. Also check for heat. Try replacing the power supply. ALso check/replace the IDE cable and/or disk drive.
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It's way more expensive.
More expensive than which? Tivo?
I guess I am really factoring in the cost of the PC to a ReplayTV system as just adding a couple hundred GBs to an existing LAN. That's $100 for the RTV, $300 for activation, and $100 for the disk.
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Tivo has a much lower initial investment, looks better, easier to use, and takes a whole 10 minutes to setup.
That is a good point about the electricity usage, but Tivo's networking and DRM-crippled "HMO" content distribution leaves something to be desired. Go with ReplayTV/DVArchive and you'll be much happier when you get smoother cross-platform networking and uncrippled content sharing right out of the box.
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