Bdale's Dream System

• Master backend box in the basement

  • PVR-250 for off-air and NASA-TV recording
  • pcHDTV card for off-air HDTV recording
  • great gobs of disk space, sitting on the gigE fabric

• Frontend in the family room

  • PVR-250 for DirecTV recording (family wants direct control)
  • nVidia (boo, hiss!) video card with DVI output to the Panny
  • DVD and HDTV display without multiple analog conversions
  • UHF macro/learning remote control

• Frontends in odd places

  • Nehemiah-based ITX boards with CLE266 video core can do MPEG2 in hardware to composite video and audio out cheaply, without fans, and using a wall-wart power supply!

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