#Sagetv htpc 1080p
this saves £20 - I'd add one as they are so cheap, bear in mind that a decent setup HTPC can drive high end HD display's (up to and including the mythical 1080p resolution that no-one intends to transmit - but I've found one manfacturer has released a display that supports it, it's £6Grand so I'll wait) and that a PC can do upscaling with all that spare horsepower it has. (I bought hybrid cards only to never use the analogue portion of the cards).Ĥ.
Digital transmisions provide much lower CPU utilisation than capturing analogue (or any external source) videa streams, also there is no degredation between live and recorded. However if you are in a freeview area then there is little point in getting hybrid or analogue circitry on the cards. Use RAID 1 on the two 120's and put any important data on there (stuff that doesn't change much - OS and MP3's) use the 200GB disk as video tape for recordings.Īs an asside - buy some extra RAM - that'll fix any issues with writing data onto the relatively slow disks.ģ. IDE and SATA disks are not designed for continual use like in a HTPC (that's one of the reasons to pay more for high rpm scsi or fc disks in servers - it's also why server have RAID controllers and use RAID 1 and 5). whilst it makes the performance better, it doubles the chance of you suffering from a disk fault and unlike RAID 1 provides no protection against data loss.
#Sagetv htpc full
if you can enable the stereo jacks at the same time you can wire them into the SCART connector on your TV - meaning that you can listed to HTPC sourced data without having to enable the full surround sound/home cinema equipment.Ģ. no contest, use SPDif and a hifi decoder rather than any PC based option. Possible HTPC build - some possible answersġ. If they are both learing then thats fine Just checking I dont end up with another remote I cant use with my "learning" remote control. My point was do they use any special IR protocols. The case would have to Full ATX as its a ATX motherboard I'm going to use.Ħ. this is the case I use, its good/bad because. I could not think of any issues (I have 2 other machines with out optical drives) but didnot know id Mediaportal need a drive for any reason.ĥ. Not sure it does JOB anyway - haven't tried it yet.Ĥ. Interesting point but JBOD doesn't offer any performance benefits does it? What I was really getting at was is RAID 0 nessecary/nice to have for performance reasons (as I have the controller anyway). Just looking for what cards people are using.Ģ. Doesn't have to be london just added for completeness. I would partition the 200gb drive anyway so reinstalls wouldnt be a problem even with the music etc on the drive.ģ.
I couldn't think of any but that didnt mean there weren't anyĢ. Just wondering if there were any benefits to having the PCI card rather than onboard. In addition the the 2 Freeview Tv cards which card should I get to connect to my cable TV box (its a Samsung NTL box) and has anyone found a way of controlling NTL STB through a HTPC?ġ. The reason i asl is my NTL Cable TV box has special codes that the remote cant replicate.ħ. Do computer remote controls use standard IR setting or do they have special codes? I have a touch screen programmable remote control for my Amp and plan to use this to control the HTPC. Any problems with having no DVD drive in the long term? I wasn't going to bother with a CD/DVD as I will use my Teac DVD drive to watch DVDs and use my desktop to Rip CDs DVDs etc as it will be faster and then copy it over my wired network.Ħ. Which Digital TV cards would you recommend? I'm in North London, UK if that makes any difference.Ĥ. Is this best or would it be better to have the 2 drives seperate and set each TV card to one of the drives? (I'm planning to get 2 Digital (Terestrial) TV Cards)ģ. I was then going to use the 2 120GB drives in a Raid 0 Array for video recordings. I was planning to use the 200GB harddrive for OS, apps and MP3. I'm going to output the HTPC through my Teac surround sound amp (both Video and Audio) - Is it best to use the Soundblaster for sound or use the motherboards onboard SPDIF?Ģ. I'm in the process of upgrading my main PC to a dual core system and will have a load of parts left over which i thougt I could use to build a HTPC with mediaportal.ġ.
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