Hi,
Can someone help spec me a media centre pc so I can get an idea of prices. I’m hoping to make it quite cheap of course, otherwise I’d just buy a replacement PVR. Here are the conditions: -
-I want to be able to use two freeview channels at the same time e.g. record one and watch another or record two. I assume I’ll be able to record two and watch an already recorded program since it won’t be using the tuner for playback.
-I want to have it connected to the main PC so I can stream video from there. It will be near the router so I can plug it into there to join the network for now. Until I can stretch to another wireless card for it. The other PC is only connected via wireless.
-It needs to be as quiet as possible and as unobtrusive as possible or the nagging will render it unusable.
-For now I don’t really need to be able to burn DVDs on it as it’s networked with the PC that has the burners in it so if I need to (which is rarely) I can burn from there. This also goes for any editing etc of recordings so hopefully that should negate the need for anything too powerful.
-It needs a remote of course.
-It’s connecting to a bog standard TV so it’s needs TV-Out
-I assume I can just get a remote keyboard and have it stashed away somewhere and just pull it out when needs be using the remote the rest of the time.
-160GB hd space will be ample fir us to start with I think. I can always upgrade that as another drive lying around won’t hurt.
I think that’s about it.
Does anyone know how well windows MCE integrates with a dual tuner digital card? I’d like it to work as flawlessly as a bought product. If I have to explain to the better half that you can watch another channel but first you have to press this button then that and then the other it will never be used.
Any ideas on the cheapest way to get all this?
Thanks
Can someone help spec me a media centre pc so I can get an idea of prices. I’m hoping to make it quite cheap of course, otherwise I’d just buy a replacement PVR. Here are the conditions: -
-I want to be able to use two freeview channels at the same time e.g. record one and watch another or record two. I assume I’ll be able to record two and watch an already recorded program since it won’t be using the tuner for playback.
-I want to have it connected to the main PC so I can stream video from there. It will be near the router so I can plug it into there to join the network for now. Until I can stretch to another wireless card for it. The other PC is only connected via wireless.
-It needs to be as quiet as possible and as unobtrusive as possible or the nagging will render it unusable.
-For now I don’t really need to be able to burn DVDs on it as it’s networked with the PC that has the burners in it so if I need to (which is rarely) I can burn from there. This also goes for any editing etc of recordings so hopefully that should negate the need for anything too powerful.
-It needs a remote of course.
-It’s connecting to a bog standard TV so it’s needs TV-Out
-I assume I can just get a remote keyboard and have it stashed away somewhere and just pull it out when needs be using the remote the rest of the time.
-160GB hd space will be ample fir us to start with I think. I can always upgrade that as another drive lying around won’t hurt.
I think that’s about it.
Does anyone know how well windows MCE integrates with a dual tuner digital card? I’d like it to work as flawlessly as a bought product. If I have to explain to the better half that you can watch another channel but first you have to press this button then that and then the other it will never be used.
Any ideas on the cheapest way to get all this?
Thanks