RE: What bedside clock for a HA-er?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I don't know why I'm thinking of mini PC stuff, I don't need
to use small form factor; like I said I have a built in box headboard
that is about 8 inches deep, and is fully capable of accommodating a
full-size tower cased PC should I want to!

I Still want it near as dammit silent though, because it will be
literally right next to my head when I'm sleeping...

So I'm thinking maybe one of the new Intel Core processors, I believe
these are reasonably frugal in power consumption, and run comparatively
cool.. - not sure if fully passive cooling of one of these is realistic
though? Anyone care to comment? - note that I could fit a *BIG* heatsink
without any problems, - I don't have to worry about case dimensions, as
I may just mount the components on an MDF board covered with
acoustifoam... - Heck, I could fit a car radiator in the space available
I reckon!

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Mark McCall
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:03 PM
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] What bedside clock for a HA-er?
>
>
> > In fact I believe Mark watches his MCE content on it, but not
> > using MCE ?
>
> Yup, it's not up to playing the MS files but I run it thru this (takes
> about
> a minute per half hour of recording) http://www.videoredo.com/ and
then it
> plays fine.
>
> Also, the new (and excellent) WebGuide4 for MCE automatically
re-encodes
> all
> my MCE recordings into lower bitrate WMV files which stream perfectly
to
> the
> VIA box too.
>
> M.
>


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