Building / Buying a MythTV box

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:48:59 Ben Scott wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
>>
>> <greg at freephile.com> wrote:
>> > I was thinking of getting the Dell Studio Hybrid ... or the System76
>> > Koala Mini ...
>>
>>   Be warned that a lot of those itty bitty boxes don't have the
>> graphics horsepower to decode high-def on the fly and throw it up on
>> to the screen.  Or so I'm told.
>
> The Dell Studio Hybrid does (I have one, watching HDTV on it now). Don't know
> about the other.
>

Because Jarod said earlier that he had the Dell Studio Hybrid, I
started looking more closely at it.  I also remembered seeing adverts
in Linux Journal for LogicSupply, and found that they have some nice
hardware -- certainly a very open and Linux-friendly company to do
business with.  So, with that I setup a comparison of the options
http://freephile.com/wiki/index.php/MythTV

Also, I'm right now adding in third (and fourth?) option(s) for a DIY
build from Newegg

Since I may not initially purchase an HDTV, it's making the HDHomeRun
look even more attractive as a tuner device because that way I can
even watch video on my wife's Window's laptop which happens to be in
the kitchen.

p.s. I'll certainly add my wiki content over at mythtv.org when I'm done.

~ greg