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  1. settepunti

    Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

    Does anybody know whether there are BIOS options to speedup the booting process? I know it's not common to have such a need in a server scenario, but I frequently use hibernation, and the microserver takes a lot of time (in relative terms) to recover from it. Any hint would be very appreciated...
  2. settepunti

    Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

    I bought a Terratec Cinergy T USB stick which is perfectly fine for DVB-T (I live in Italy). I am a bit confused about analog Freeview; AFAIK Freeview is a digital service (with SD - standard definition - and HD - high definition - variants). You got to check what signal is broadcast where...
  3. settepunti

    Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

    You need the graphic + sound card only for playback. For recording you only need the tuner. AFAIK almost every digital tuner nowadays supports both SD and HD, as they only transfer a stream to the hard disk and/or to the playback software. The difference between SD and HD is in bit rate and/or...
  4. settepunti

    Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

    Digital recording is not a CPU intensive task, basically the tuner(s) only transfer one or more digital streams to the disk, and any CPU can do it. I bought one Microserver, added 4 Gb of RAM to be on the safe side, a G210 video card to have HDMI and sound over HDMI and a cheap USB TV tuner...
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