-- Mark Paulus 2424 Garden of the Gods Rd | Phone: v622-5578 / 719-535-5578 0419/117 - LEC Access ; C1-1207 | FAX: 719-535-7060 Colorado Springs, CO 80919 AIM : mgpaulus1 / sametime : [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Metro [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 2:35 PM > To: L-mvpmc-users > Subject: [Mvpmc-users] MVP alternatives > > Michael Drons wrote: > > I tried the mvix, and was not happy with it. > > That's too bad. I mentioned it in a post about a two months ago and it > was at the top of my list for ready-built media appliances. > > So what didn't you like about it? > > Every week I see one or two new media appliances hitting the market. > There is a lot of them. It's really too bad none of the manufacturers > have woken up to the idea of including a MythTV client. > > > > Then invested in a Intel Atom single core system. > > With or without an ION chipset? I didn't think the Atom CPUs by > themselves were adequate for HD. > > I've read a few reports of good results for ION hardware. > > > I see local retailers are selling the ION-based Acer AspireRevo for > $200: > http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-launches-first-nvidia-ion- > based-nettop-aspirerevo/ > > I haven't yet mined the MythTV user's list (or XBMC list) for reports > of > this specific hardware being used successfully. I assume at minimum it > needs to be supplemented with an IR receiver and remote. > > > I've also ran across the Beagle Board: > http://beagleboard.org/ > > which supposedly can do HD playback: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdnDpH3543Q > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFsiQ88wFU > > but once you start supplementing the $150 board with packaging and > peripherals to make a complete set top box, you're probably better off > with something like the AspireRevo. (If they were priced at $50, they'd > be far more interesting. You could stuff one inside a sub-$100 20" LCD > panel to make a jumbo digital picture frame.) > > It's using an ARM-based CPU running at 600 MHz. Supposedly ARM is > working on ramping up its CPU speeds to 2 GHz and will be going after > Intel in the netbook market. There may be some useful media player > spinoffs from that. > > What software are you running on it? A full MythTV front-end? >
We got a nice Sony Bravia 46" KDL46XBR6 this last summer, and while SD is ok, I'm looking ahead, and have the same issues. I'm going to try out an Intel DG45GC w/E3200 (Dual Core Celeron) in a Morex 3388 case. (The DG45FC supports HDMI on the MoBo, which is a great draw in my case). Still haven't decided whether to run XBMC or MythFrontend on it yet. The simplistic functionallity of the MVPMC is just so hard to beat. I've used a Western Digital Media Player (w/HDMI) in our Pilot, and I'll tell you, once you get used to being able to skip around either by index amounts or just 30 seconds, other types don't work as nicely. I'm thinking it may be time to start work on completing the host mode of the mvpmc so that it can use X, and then being able to use MVPMC in host mode on these ION/HTPC boards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
