Cost of MythTV Machines
- From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean (at) thirdcontact.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:34:39 -0500
On 01/23/2006 01:23 PM, CHRIS KOTTING wrote:
>> - Do you (and other family members) want an "ugly" old computer
>> showcased in your living room?
>>
>
> No, so I have it behind the wall unit and use an RF keyboard and mouse.
>
>
Actually, by threading an IR sensor through the wall, you can use IR,
too. However, I recommend the RF keyboard/mouse, anyway--a remote, on
the other hand, may not be worth going RF. I have an RF keyboard/mouse
and remote, and I still put the receivers in the viewing room (with
wires threaded through the wall).
>> - How many hours of recordings do you want to keep? (HINT: it's more
>> than you would ever think when your building your first mythtv box)
>>
>
> Yes it is, but I archive off to DVD anything we deem worth keeping longer
> than one viewing.
>
Remember, though, that even that first viewing can be hard to come by
when you've got a Myth box that's happy to just sit around and record
stuff for you. I have 360GB and delete every single show after viewing
(I purchase DVD's of the shows I want to keep--i.e. Stargate SG-1 and
Firefly). However, I /still/ got down to less than 5GiB storage--and
that's after copying 100GiB of recordings to my non-Myth fileserver!!!
Mike
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