Mike Miller wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Chris Frederick wrote: > >> I'm not sure how you could accomplish this without terminals for the >> TVs. I'm slowly planing the same thing, but I plan on a pc on each TV >> monitor. One of the genius points of MythTV is you can have your one >> central server, and a ton of frontends. >> >> I've looked around a lot for cheap and small PCs that would work for a >> client, and I came up with this: >> >> http://www.logisysus.com/ >> C-BOX 134 2" smallest slim PC, VIA 1GHZ/600MHZ fanless CPU >> http://logisysus.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24_57&products_id=47 > > Will it give good quality video out? HDTV? > > It would be nice to have a DVD player built into it. > > Maybe you can boot from flash memory? > > Mike > If you visit the second link, it will show the specs you can modify on it. > Will it give good quality video out? HDTV? "VIA CastleRock AGP graphics with MPEG-2 decoder, S-Video and TV-Out" Doesn't look like HDTV ready, but S-Video has never failed me yet. > It would be nice to have a DVD player built into it. It can have a DVD-ROM installed (the slim laptop kind) and MythTV has optical disk support (VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc...) so, this would work just like a DVD player if you set it up right. > Maybe you can boot from flash memory? It has options for Solid-state IDE Flash drives, but they're kinda spendy: 1GB Solid state IDE flash Hard drive(+$109.00) 2GB Solid state IDE flash Hard drive(+$179.00) 4GB Solid state IDE flash Hard drive(+$289.00) For those prices I can live with the hard drive noise, that and most laptop sized hard drives don't make a lot of noise anyway, not enough that I would expect to hear it across a room anyway. Other options I like are the wireless keyboards (RF and IR options): Mini RF 2.4GHZ Wireless LG20 with trackball and joystick.(+$59.00) Mini LG-573 IR Keyboard With Built-In Track Ball (Black(+$69.00) And of course the chance to buy it without an OS installed. ;) Chris