Building / Buying a MythTV box

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Friday 20 March 2009 12:22:14 pm Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> I'm undecided about whether it's going to be easier/better/cheaper to
> run a single unit with maybe a USB external drive attached or run a
> front-end that is small and pretty with a backend on the rack in the
> basement.  I do have a wire shelf rack in the basement with UPS and
> the house is wired with CAT5.

I'm not up on the latest and greatest hardware out there.  I only learn that 
stuff when I need to rebuild or repair my current MythBox due to hardware 
failures. I'm cheap and hardware will fail every couple of years and 
sometimes more for me.  As it's been awhile since I've done a rebuild, I'm 
just not familiar with the various hardware Myth-in-a-box solutions or the 
best tuner cards you can get.

I will say this though.  I know that the next time I build it up again, I 
really want a dual-machine setup.  I like having my servers centralized and 
the idea of a cheap lightweight frontend appeals to me.  It's not that big a 
deal, but I keep wishing I had that setup for various small little reasons, 
so if you can swing it, it's probably worthwhile.

-N