Digital TV hardware?

[Owen Townend]

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> Sorry for entering this so late, but Daniel can you give me an idea of
> what sized machines you're talking about?
> To be able to record 2 channels at once and view a recording?
>
> I have bought 2 Topfield PVR devices, the first was brilliant till the
> main board died and we were told it was cheaper to replace the whole
> unit than fix it, and the unit we bought to replace it is starting to
> play up... so now I've decided that a MythBuntu box would be the best
> solution... I want an idea of what I'll be in for...



Hey,
  The hardware refresh I bought last weekend can easily achieve this and
wasn't that expensive. I installed Mythbuntu 8.04 beta. Except for my unique
hardware problems[1] the process was pretty easy. It may be a little
overpowered for just myth, but it also runs mysql-server,
apache2, and a bunch of vms.

AMD Phenom 9600 'black edition'
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H (AMD 780G chipset - has onboard ATI HD3200 w/UVD)
4GB DDR2 800 (2x2GB kit)
3x750GB SATAII WD 'green edition'
LG OEM SATA DL DVD-RW

Total cost was (just) under a grand.
I already had:
Antec 4U22 Case,
Thermaltake 430W PSU,
Kworld DVB-T 100 Tuner,
4x400GB Samsung SATAII HDD,
RocketRaid 1740 4 Port SATAII PCI card.

cheers,
Owen.

[1] My RocketRaid 174x drivers won't compile past 2.6.22
  7.10's stock kernel won't detect my brand new hardware.
  8.04's stock kernel is too new for my raid card drivers.
  So I had to either install then downgrade, or build a custom 7.10 install
disk or install on other hardware, update and then move the hdd back.

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