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<blockquote data-quote="speedypancake" data-source="post: 35011" data-attributes="member: 17680">I've enjoyed playing around with your media portal program since Christmas. I got a Hauppauge Nova-T card and an AC3 / 5.1 Creative Audigy sound card to go with my Comaq Presario Pentium 4, 2.66GHz 120GB Desktop. I also invested in a lot of new cabling as I'm running everything off the PC in the dining room but watching on our widescreen TV in the living room. The S-Video output seems to be the best quality I can achieve and it looks acceptable if not brilliant. And I've fitted a TV signal distribution box / amp fitted in the loft.I'm now considering a dedicated 500GB hard drive to store our videos / pics / mp3's etc. My question is (finally <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> would an external USB hard drive work well and would it be able to deliver movies etc at the required rate / performance etc.?Cheers for any thoughts etcSpeedy</blockquote>

[QUOTE="speedypancake, post: 35011, member: 17680"] I've enjoyed playing around with your media portal program since Christmas. I got a Hauppauge Nova-T card and an AC3 / 5.1 Creative Audigy sound card to go with my Comaq Presario Pentium 4, 2.66GHz 120GB Desktop. I also invested in a lot of new cabling as I'm running everything off the PC in the dining room but watching on our widescreen TV in the living room. The S-Video output seems to be the best quality I can achieve and it looks acceptable if not brilliant. And I've fitted a TV signal distribution box / amp fitted in the loft. I'm now considering a dedicated 500GB hard drive to store our videos / pics / mp3's etc. My question is (finally ;) would an external USB hard drive work well and would it be able to deliver movies etc at the required rate / performance etc.? Cheers for any thoughts etc Speedy [/QUOTE]

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