Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:14 -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Its definitely underpowered for HDTV, and running the ragged edge for  
> > SDTV.
> 
> Yeah, if I was a big sports fan or a movie fanatic, I'd probably want 
> the 60" high-def and the 7.1 sounds. But, really, how much better does 
> Andy Rooney look in high-def?

I suspect he'd actually look scarier... :)

> > My own MythTV frontend[*] runs ratpoison, so I do still have a window  
> > manager should I want to open an xterm, browse the web, etc., but I  
> > believe its memory footprint is something like 400k and it doesn't do  
> > *anything* but manage windows.
> > 
> > [*] core duo 1.66ghz mac mini, tiny, runs pretty much silent, and  
> > handles hdtv playback beautifully
> > 
> 
> At only a few hundred more than the Koolu, that's a pretty reasonable 
> upgrade for a lot of improvement. Well, if the Koolu gets to be too 
> annoying (and it's really as much a tinkering project as an appliance) 
> I'll definitely look at the mac minis.

Even better, the low end one is now a 1.83ghz core 2 duo. I still need
to figure out if my mini can handle 1080p h.264 content or not...


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Jarod Wilson
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