another question, *thanks for feedback BTW* what is the difference between hardware decoding and encoding, sorry I know I could google, but ......<br> <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Michael Proctor-Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:mproctor13@gmail.com">mproctor13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/6/06, Munjal Thakkar <<a href="mailto:m00njal@gmail.com">m00njal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hey guys, looking to start a myth TV project towards this coming weekend,<br>> heres a little low down so you guys can know what feedback to give
<br>> My mom wants a new TV setup in the bedroom, they are still using this<br>> ancient 13" CRT that they have had since probably they came to the US? *its<br>> color though* and it still works fine. However I spotted a nice 22" LCD on
<br>> sale for about $250 at circuit city *check your local flyer* and was<br>> interested to nab that for them and have it setup for a front end box in the<br>> bedroom. Not so bad, I just was wondering if front end only, I should be ok
<br>> with a little 733mhz setup (old MATX board) and possibly 256 ram?<br>Well 733 will not playback HD, and will have issues with mpeg2, in my<br>experiance, Unless you have a hardware decoder.<br><br>> Second, I<br>
> have various forms of hardware laying around, and all spiffy for my backend,<br>> but really wanted some feed back or references I could be linked too for a<br>> good TV tuner card, possibly DVR card, or a HD tuner only card that I could
<br>> stick in there and have it running away for my parents. All advice is<br>> greatly appreciate d!<br><br>I like haugage(sp?) pvr(1/2/3)50 cards that do hardware mpeg2<br>encoding, pvr350 does hardware decoding as well. I have pchd3000(HDTV)
<br>card as but I have some issues with it but is great when it works.<br>> p.s. any speakers for this week ?<br><br>Ya Claude has agreed to talk about his weather station setup, and if<br>there is still time port knocking. Tom you want to put that up on the
<br>website?<br></blockquote></div><br>