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<blockquote data-quote="clovek1" data-source="post: 251199" data-attributes="member: 71620"><p><strong>my personal opinion</strong></p><p></p><p>here are my thoughts to your questions (i hope nobody will feel insulted by them, but i like tell the truth even if its sometimes unpleasant)</p><p></p><p>- Media Portal in the Server+Client configuration is everything else, but noob friendly (developers may forgive me). It's the most complicated Media Center solution i have ever seen and setting it up has taken me many hours (i think i needed more than 4 hours to just len it run with the simplest default settings). the Media Portal 0.2.3.0 (no server) is much more easy to set up, but has some drawbacks compared to Server+Client setup and is not very simple to set up too.</p><p>I do personally use the MP (server+client) because of the unbelievable rich possibilities to set it up (i can modify more setting than i had ever imagined before) and because of the beatifull Xface skin . MP is actually the only SW able to replace Windows Media Center in every way, as far i know.</p><p></p><p>- to receive digital terrestrial TV you will definitely need DVB-T card. if you pay for cable Tv, it could be possible to use DVB-C card. if your TV is scrambled, you will need a TV card with CI slot (you will need a CAM module for decrypting + deconding card from your provider).</p><p></p><p>- you will definitely need 2 tuners to watch one TV programm and record anothe at the same time. i think 2 physical cards could be more compatible to most software, than 1 card with 2 tuners. </p><p>another thing is, how do you want to distribute signal from 1 antenna to 2 cards, or 2 inputs of one card ?</p><p>i tried this (dvb-t dual tuner card and 1 antenna) and got no success (i lost signal , when i connected the same antenna output to both card inputs). </p><p></p><p>- if your TV card has one arial input and 2 tuners, then it should generally be able to use both tuners with one antenna</p><p></p><p>- for the list of MP compatible cards see the compatibility list</p><p></p><p>- you can connect your TV through Scart or trought the yellow+red+white cables. You will need a graphics card with TV-out.</p><p>cinch red, white = stereo audio signal (left+right channel)</p><p>cinch yellow = composite video signal (VHS recorder quality)</p><p>Scart = scart has many pins and generally contains: stereo auto (identical to the red+white), composite (identical to the yellow wire), RGB (noticably better video quality, not transported in some scart cables, some scart connectors in some TVs dont work with RGB signal). there are Scart <-> red,yellow,white cables too.</p><p></p><p>i hope some of my answers helped you to get further.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clovek1, post: 251199, member: 71620"] [b]my personal opinion[/b] here are my thoughts to your questions (i hope nobody will feel insulted by them, but i like tell the truth even if its sometimes unpleasant) - Media Portal in the Server+Client configuration is everything else, but noob friendly (developers may forgive me). It's the most complicated Media Center solution i have ever seen and setting it up has taken me many hours (i think i needed more than 4 hours to just len it run with the simplest default settings). the Media Portal 0.2.3.0 (no server) is much more easy to set up, but has some drawbacks compared to Server+Client setup and is not very simple to set up too. I do personally use the MP (server+client) because of the unbelievable rich possibilities to set it up (i can modify more setting than i had ever imagined before) and because of the beatifull Xface skin . MP is actually the only SW able to replace Windows Media Center in every way, as far i know. - to receive digital terrestrial TV you will definitely need DVB-T card. if you pay for cable Tv, it could be possible to use DVB-C card. if your TV is scrambled, you will need a TV card with CI slot (you will need a CAM module for decrypting + deconding card from your provider). - you will definitely need 2 tuners to watch one TV programm and record anothe at the same time. i think 2 physical cards could be more compatible to most software, than 1 card with 2 tuners. another thing is, how do you want to distribute signal from 1 antenna to 2 cards, or 2 inputs of one card ? i tried this (dvb-t dual tuner card and 1 antenna) and got no success (i lost signal , when i connected the same antenna output to both card inputs). - if your TV card has one arial input and 2 tuners, then it should generally be able to use both tuners with one antenna - for the list of MP compatible cards see the compatibility list - you can connect your TV through Scart or trought the yellow+red+white cables. You will need a graphics card with TV-out. cinch red, white = stereo audio signal (left+right channel) cinch yellow = composite video signal (VHS recorder quality) Scart = scart has many pins and generally contains: stereo auto (identical to the red+white), composite (identical to the yellow wire), RGB (noticably better video quality, not transported in some scart cables, some scart connectors in some TVs dont work with RGB signal). there are Scart <-> red,yellow,white cables too. i hope some of my answers helped you to get further. [/QUOTE]
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