- December 11, 2009
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I've been a bit of a busy man since my last post in this thread.
The idea is still to build a mediacenter that is as much 'not there' as possible. I generally hate looking at cables and equipment that has no direct function (i.e displaying image or making noize), so they have to go. If I could I'd build 'em right into the wall, but that's not an option for me (now).
The kit I displayed in the thread mentoined above has gone through a series of changes:
First, the TV and the PC are updated. The TV is a Sony Bravia 40" screen, the PC is a Core2Duo system a good friend of mine was willing to give (hurray for good friends). Mediaportal 1.2b is installed and the awesome Mustayaluca skin is showing all the goods. I needed the new PC because of a switch to HDTV via DVBIP which my old system couldn't handle. I use an nvidia 9600GT graphics board and for a bit of silencing I bought a second hand SDD.
The home made casing you see on the picture still houses a H/K AVR100 receiver hooked up to an M-Audio 24/96 soundcard, driving Eltax linear response speakers. For cooling I fitted a pair of very silent 500RPM 12cm fans in the amp, which are powerd by the PC. Also attached is a turntable and a few layers of new - white - paint. I control it with a Logitech Harmony remote (the cheap one, a 300 I believe)
Secondly I installed a embedded Mini ITX server system, hidden away in my 'electricitycloset' (don't know proper english word), which houses al of my media, a usenet- and bittorrent client and an ampache server. It's an atom dualcore system, 1GB, Ubuntu, 5TB of diskspace connected over 1Gb network.
Pro's: Good WAF, complete setup, 1080p without problem, good capacity.
(sort of) Cons: a friggin load of work and thinking to make it all fit and work
getting there!
The idea is still to build a mediacenter that is as much 'not there' as possible. I generally hate looking at cables and equipment that has no direct function (i.e displaying image or making noize), so they have to go. If I could I'd build 'em right into the wall, but that's not an option for me (now).
The kit I displayed in the thread mentoined above has gone through a series of changes:
First, the TV and the PC are updated. The TV is a Sony Bravia 40" screen, the PC is a Core2Duo system a good friend of mine was willing to give (hurray for good friends). Mediaportal 1.2b is installed and the awesome Mustayaluca skin is showing all the goods. I needed the new PC because of a switch to HDTV via DVBIP which my old system couldn't handle. I use an nvidia 9600GT graphics board and for a bit of silencing I bought a second hand SDD.
The home made casing you see on the picture still houses a H/K AVR100 receiver hooked up to an M-Audio 24/96 soundcard, driving Eltax linear response speakers. For cooling I fitted a pair of very silent 500RPM 12cm fans in the amp, which are powerd by the PC. Also attached is a turntable and a few layers of new - white - paint. I control it with a Logitech Harmony remote (the cheap one, a 300 I believe)
Secondly I installed a embedded Mini ITX server system, hidden away in my 'electricitycloset' (don't know proper english word), which houses al of my media, a usenet- and bittorrent client and an ampache server. It's an atom dualcore system, 1GB, Ubuntu, 5TB of diskspace connected over 1Gb network.
Pro's: Good WAF, complete setup, 1080p without problem, good capacity.
(sort of) Cons: a friggin load of work and thinking to make it all fit and work
getting there!
