Re: DVR v Windows MCE

[Raymond Kelly <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or if your up for it build your own HTPC.
I,ve got a video processor - Dscaler with Sky input and DVD player and
use showshifter for the front end
http://www.pluggedin.tv/sweetspot/support/faq.html

gives unrivalled picture quality, but beware very addictive

On 13/01/06, Kim Wall <kim@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim Andrews wrote:
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> > My concern about the DVR's are the many idiosyncrasies that seem
to be reported
> > and that no single unit seems to be intuitive AND complete in its
feature set.
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> > With quality dual tuners now appearing, is MCE the route to go?
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> > Cost is not a factor, I just don't want to make a decision I'll
later regret!
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> Just to complicate matters, I'm going to mention MythTV  -
> http://www.mythtv.org/
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> It's Linux based, so no Microsoft tax, and I believe the featureset
> compares favourably to MCE, especially in a networked environment.  On
> the other hand it's a Linux based open source project, so you might
run
> away screaming at the very idea :)
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