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<blockquote data-quote="norjms" data-source="post: 421385" data-attributes="member: 59554"><p><strong>Words of Caution</strong></p><p></p><p>I would look to offer some words of advice.</p><p></p><p>1. Avoid wireless at all costs if HDTV or other HD sources are in your future. In most cases a wireless signal is insuffecient for streaming.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/" target="_blank">Streaming video over a network</a></p><p></p><p>2. Also a word about what CPU you will choose for your HTPC rig. Quad cores... Your CPU will be a main compenent for decoding and transcoding the video for you main HTPC and any clients. </p><p></p><p>3. I would think about the case you use aswell. Unless you happen to have a server on your network. The case you linked seems to only have one hard drive slot. I am just speaking for myself but, storing digital media is like an adiction. You always want more and there is never enough. Consider a case like this one.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163054" target="_blank">LC17</a></p><p></p><p>It isn't that expensive and it takes a full size motherboad has plentiful hard drive slots standard ATX power supply and above all looks nice doing it...(helps with the wife factor)</p><p></p><p>4. Memmory 3GB is enough for XP 32bit anything more is wasted and not addressable by the OS.</p><p></p><p>5. The tuner of choice in my house is a 3 tuner matrix. </p><p></p><p>Hauppauge pvr-150</p><p><a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_pvr150.html" target="_blank">Link</a></p><p></p><p>and</p><p></p><p>Silicondust HDHomerun</p><p><a href="http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun_atsc" target="_blank">Link</a></p><p></p><p>One thing I've noticed with HTPC's is once you have started a media collection you want it anywhere you have a TV not just on the one TV you started on. That being said consider you network...think gigabit! Ensure every motherboard you have for the network is gigabit compliant you will thank me later. If you need more suggestions or idea just pm me or post here. Keep asking alot of questions...I'm sure there are alot of us who wish we could make all our purchases over since after you start a setup you find out what does and doesn't work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="norjms, post: 421385, member: 59554"] [b]Words of Caution[/b] I would look to offer some words of advice. 1. Avoid wireless at all costs if HDTV or other HD sources are in your future. In most cases a wireless signal is insuffecient for streaming. [URL="http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/"]Streaming video over a network[/URL] 2. Also a word about what CPU you will choose for your HTPC rig. Quad cores... Your CPU will be a main compenent for decoding and transcoding the video for you main HTPC and any clients. 3. I would think about the case you use aswell. Unless you happen to have a server on your network. The case you linked seems to only have one hard drive slot. I am just speaking for myself but, storing digital media is like an adiction. You always want more and there is never enough. Consider a case like this one. [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163054"]LC17[/URL] It isn't that expensive and it takes a full size motherboad has plentiful hard drive slots standard ATX power supply and above all looks nice doing it...(helps with the wife factor) 4. Memmory 3GB is enough for XP 32bit anything more is wasted and not addressable by the OS. 5. The tuner of choice in my house is a 3 tuner matrix. Hauppauge pvr-150 [URL="http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_pvr150.html"]Link[/URL] and Silicondust HDHomerun [URL="http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun_atsc"]Link[/URL] One thing I've noticed with HTPC's is once you have started a media collection you want it anywhere you have a TV not just on the one TV you started on. That being said consider you network...think gigabit! Ensure every motherboard you have for the network is gigabit compliant you will thank me later. If you need more suggestions or idea just pm me or post here. Keep asking alot of questions...I'm sure there are alot of us who wish we could make all our purchases over since after you start a setup you find out what does and doesn't work. [/QUOTE]
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