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Fanless Media Center Box

Posted by timothy on from the fins-are-always-cool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I didn't know that Hush Technologies made Media Center PCs, but they do. Here's a review of one of those beautiful fanless machines running media center 2005. Could this be the perfect media center box?" It's certainly perfectly expensive.

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  1. Re:physical location by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "microsoft drm-encumbered proprietary evilness"

    The files recorded by MCE2005 are not DRM protected. Using a simple app you can convert them to standard MPEG-2.

    "Ironic that your name contains "myth" as we've had that capability in mythtv land for quite some time. "

    Yeah, but in so many other ways, MythTV "blows". Unless you want to dedicate a PC to being a Myth box, you're pretty much screwed.

    Not to mention the killer interface, ease of setup, and overall featureset of MCE.

    Oh, and, yeah, MCE2005 supports multi-tuner configs. Works great, actually. I don't know what the grandparent is complaining about.

    MCE2005 just *works*. Like a TiVo. If you want to mess with crap to get your TV system going, go for it. For the rest of us who want a tested, easy-to-config solution, MCE2005 is the way to go.