My MythTV Setup
My MythTV Setup
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 754)
CPU Cooler:
Thermaltake
Blue Orb II
Motherboard: FIC
K8-800T
RAM: 1GB (Single Module)
Video Card: Nvidia 6200 AGP (Passively Cooled), Component HDTV Output
Tuner Cards: 3 Air2PC ATSC PCI
HDTV Cards
Hard Drives: 1 SATA 80GB (Seagate) for OS 1 IDE/PATA 250 GB (Western
Digital) for recordings
Remote IR Receiver:
Snapstream
Firefly Mini
Remote:
Sony
RMVL710 Universal Remote
Case: nMediaPC HTPC
300
Wireless:D-Link DLG-3420 Wireless 108AG
Gaming Adaptor
HDTV: Sanyo
HT27745 (27" 4:3 format)
Operating System: Mythbuntu 7.10 (64 bit version)
Originally built as a cheap "Proof of Concept" OTA HDTV PVR system for my
wife to
accept the idea of ditching the Charter Cable HD DVR/PVR, the system works so well
that I never built a replacement system. At the time that I put it
together (April 2007), a comparable HD Tivo Series 3 cost $799 plus $12.50
a month
for
service. With some spare parts, I put about $400 into it initially, and
since them I put about another $100 into it. TV Listings were free when I
first built it, now I have to pay $20 a year for the listings. The 250 GB
drive will hold about 36 hours of HDTV, and with 3 tuners I can record 3
shows at the same time. A Series 3 TiVo can only record 2 programs at
once and
costs $129 a year for listings (It can record 32 hours it HD). Except for
the large amount of time I put
into setting it up initally, I think I got a better deal with my Mythtv
box :)
Mythtv is getting much easier to setup, the initial install on Ubuntu
7.04 took quite
some time. Now, with Mythbuntu (a new Mythtv centric Ubuntu
Distrobution),
I was able to format and re-setup in a
couple of hours, and many things that were a major pain to research and
setup are automatically configured in the GUI install.
UPDATE- I no long run this system. I built a new system that runs
*gasp* Microsoft Media Center. The updated build is here.