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Anyone else doing anything similar?


Do you mean, like, my 4-tuner Myth box from last year?

Here's the MythTV setup we have here. That's an Antec Fusion case on the top right of the (custom built) cabinet. It's got a Foxconn mATX motherboard inside, with a Core2Duo @ 1.86Ghz with 2GB of PC6400 SDRAM. Theres an NVidia 6300 PCIe video card, purely for the DVI-D output, an LG SATA DVD+-RW/dl optical drive, and a pair of 340GB SATA drives in RAID0 for storage.

Two Hauppauge PVR-250 NTSC tuners reside inside the Antec case, and the external HDHomeRun dual-ATSC tuner is hiding to the left of the empeg.



There's a Logitech Z-5500 5.1 surround speaker system attached via the optical input. The speaker system control unit is on the shelf below the Antec case, next to the case full of ripped DVDs.

An old and lonely VCR sits unplugged/unused below that.

On the left side, is the docked empeg w/tuner module, sitting on top of our $25 progressive DVD player (also unplugged/unused). The Logitech subwoofer is underneath that.

Lots of mass in the cabinet, so the sub doesn't vibrate it (much), and the Viewsonic 37" LCD on top gives a great view of Hockey Night in Canada (broadcast OTA in 1920x1024i HD).

Multiple OTA antennas are on a tower above the house, with coaxial leads terminating in a mess of RF plumbing hidden inside the cabinet above the empeg. There's also an APC SMART-UPS 650 behind the DVD storage to keep things reliable. A small 5-port ethernet hub connects everything to a single drop from the main home network.

Everything other than the Antec case is wired to a +5V driven power relay switch, so it all powers off (for real!) when the system is "off". The real-time clock alarm feature is used to automatically wake up the system for scheduled recordings as needed.

Cheers


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Edited by mlord (27/10/2007 22:43)