MediaCenter PC for the living room
It might be HP, but same company these days ...
" HP Pavilion Media Center TV PC " anyone have one of these in the living room. I saw one yesterday - with RCA jacks, DTV inputs etc and wondering if anyone has .... hooked up cameras / a VCR and recorded to DVD's . I was thinking would be nice to convert old VHS tapes to video as well as use as media PC. |
MediaCenter PC for the living room
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It might be HP, but same company these days ... " HP Pavilion Media Center TV PC " anyone have one of these in the living room. I saw one yesterday - with RCA jacks, DTV inputs etc and wondering if anyone has .... hooked up cameras / a VCR and recorded to DVD's . I was thinking would be nice to convert old VHS tapes to video as well as use as media PC. I went a little further: - Set up PC running Windows Home Server in a closet off the rec room - where the soil stack runs. - Pulled Ethernet to several rooms where we watch TV using the soil stack and crawl space as the cable highway. - Started running an application called "SageTV" (basically MS Media Center for people who want more control) on the server - Put one of these little guys http://tinyurl.com/cswoco under each TV (draws 7 watts, no moving parts, totally silent) - Ripped all my DVDs to the server Now I have more recorded TV than I could watch in 10 lifetimes and instant access to any of our DVDs from any room in the house - and if I watch 10 minutes of something in, say, the kitchen and close it... when I open it up in the rec room the next day it picks up right where I left off. It's not what I'd call a turnkey system - OTOH, it's not a part-time job like some.... maybe something less than a hobby... but definitely requiring some willingness to cope with technical issues. I blew a little short of two grand on the whole thing - and it's way overkill. Could be done for under a thousand dollars as long as one pulls their own cable. -- PeteCresswell |
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