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I have a Dell Dimension 4100 with following specs:
800 mhz Pentium 3
512 megs ram
40 gig hard drive
Windows XP Pro
21" monitor
CD drive only
What Im wondering is if I could make a good PVR (Tivo clone) outta
this thing? Does it have enough horsepower and resources??
Initially Id just like to ut a DVD drive in this thing and be able to
hook it up to a standard 32" analog TV and play DVD movies with it.
Can that be done cheaply to start with?
Then....Id like to put a TV card and PVR video card in it to record TV
programs to the hard drive....and watch them later on the 32" analog
TV
Advice? Can I do this at reasonable cost with above hardware?
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you can add a dvd rom for about $35 or a dvd writer for about $85 and play
dvds on your tv if your video card has tv out.
your system might be a little slow for real time mpeg encoding but you can
find out for about $50 with a leadtek winfast tv2000 deluxe card.
<me6@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> I have a Dell Dimension 4100 with following specs:
>
> 800 mhz Pentium 3
>
> 512 megs ram
>
> 40 gig hard drive
>
> Windows XP Pro
>
> 21" monitor
>
> CD drive only
>
>
> What Im wondering is if I could make a good PVR (Tivo clone) outta
> this thing? Does it have enough horsepower and resources??
>
> Initially Id just like to ut a DVD drive in this thing and be able to
> hook it up to a standard 32" analog TV and play DVD movies with it.
> Can that be done cheaply to start with?
>
> Then....Id like to put a TV card and PVR video card in it to record TV
> programs to the hard drive....and watch them later on the 32" analog
> TV
>
> Advice? Can I do this at reasonable cost with above hardware?
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt (More info?)
me6@privacy.net wrote:
> I have a Dell Dimension 4100 with following specs:
>
> 800 mhz Pentium 3
>
> 512 megs ram
>
> 40 gig hard drive
>
> Windows XP Pro
>
> 21" monitor
>
> CD drive only
Coupled with a PVR-250, that should make a decent MythTV machine. You
might grow out of that 40GB drive real quick, though.
If your capture card doesn't do hardware encoding, your CPU isn't going
to cut it.
-WD
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:18:48 GMT, "Wooducoodu"
<wooducoodu@hotmail.com> wrote:
>you can add a dvd rom for about $35 or a dvd writer for about $85 and play
>dvds on your tv if your video card has tv out.
>
>your system might be a little slow for real time mpeg encoding but you can
>find out for about $50 with a leadtek winfast tv2000 deluxe card.
>
>
Or go right an buy a Hauppauge PVR250 board for $120 or so.
If you have OTA DTV you can get an ATSC tuner board (or if you are
Europe, a DVB-T board)
><me6@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>> I have a Dell Dimension 4100 with following specs:
>>
>> 800 mhz Pentium 3
>>
>> 512 megs ram
>>
>> 40 gig hard drive
>>
>> Windows XP Pro
>>
>> 21" monitor
>>
>> CD drive only
>>
>>
>> What Im wondering is if I could make a good PVR (Tivo clone) outta
>> this thing? Does it have enough horsepower and resources??
>>
>> Initially Id just like to ut a DVD drive in this thing and be able to
>> hook it up to a standard 32" analog TV and play DVD movies with it.
>> Can that be done cheaply to start with?
>>
>> Then....Id like to put a TV card and PVR video card in it to record TV
>> programs to the hard drive....and watch them later on the 32" analog
>> TV
>>
>> Advice? Can I do this at reasonable cost with above hardware?
>
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>Or go right an buy a Hauppauge PVR250 board for $120 or so.
Well PC Mag did a review of such software and hardware awhile back
I think they recommenced the Hauppauge 350 in conjunction with a
SnapStream Beyond TV3
see link
http://www.snapstream.com/Products/
What do you guys think of that setup?
And ....I wonder why they recommend the Hauppauge 350 rather then the
250 model you mention above?
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you'd be better off with the leadtek.
<me6@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> >Or go right an buy a Hauppauge PVR250 board for $120 or so.
>
> Well PC Mag did a review of such software and hardware awhile back
>
> I think they recommenced the Hauppauge 350 in conjunction with a
> SnapStream Beyond TV3
>
> see link
>
> http://www.snapstream.com/Products/
>
> What do you guys think of that setup?
>
> And ....I wonder why they recommend the Hauppauge 350 rather then the
> 250 model you mention above?
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt (More info?)
me6@privacy.net wrote:
>>Or go right an buy a Hauppauge PVR250 board for $120 or so.
>
>
> Well PC Mag did a review of such software and hardware awhile back
>
> I think they recommenced the Hauppauge 350 in conjunction with a
> SnapStream Beyond TV3
>
> see link
>
> http://www.snapstream.com/Products/
>
> What do you guys think of that setup?
>
> And ....I wonder why they recommend the Hauppauge 350 rather then the
> 250 model you mention above?
The 350 has high quality TV-out functionality, but I do not believe this
is supported if you're running Windows.
-WD
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