[TriLUG] Networked DVR (was storage with 4 x 80G hard drives?)

[Wing D Lizard]

Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>On 8/1/05, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
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>
>>I guess what I really want is a device that has a big hard drive, can
>>output video for playback on a TV, and can participate in a network.
>>Preferably it would take a wireless network card. The recording side of
>>things is not so important.
>>
>>Putting together a cheap (but reliable) PC with a video card that has a
>>TV-out port, running some form of Linux, seems one of the better options
>>because it is so flexible, except that I want something quieter humming
>>away in my living room. If it was more like a device it would be even
>>better.
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>
>How about the Hauppage Media MVP?
>http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm
>It's small, quiet, and even runs linux so you can set it up
>as a mythtv frontend. :-)  Then, just setup a big box in the
>closet with as many tuners as you want and lots of hard disks
>and you're set.  You could even use multiple ones of these
>all accessing the same backend to drive multiple TVs in your 
>house.
>
>Cheers,
>Tanner
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>
I saw this at radio shack for 79 dollars recently.

I have one, but I haven't tried to use it with mythtv yet.



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