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<blockquote data-quote="jawbroken" data-source="post: 31844" data-attributes="member: 14372"><p>EPG is easy enough to grab, getting extended information such as description and genre can be tough, but there is work being done on an excellent solution to this that will hopefully be seen soon.</p><p></p><p>fathead: He says he has a P4 1.8gHz, so a socket 939 motherboard is not going to help him too much =D</p><p></p><p>Tuner: The Dvico Fusion HDTV tuners, I believe, are the best for Australia as far as I know. You can just pick up a Lite, which will give you single tuner SD and HDTV digital television. If you want more than that, the Plus comes with a remote as well as composite/svideo inputs (not really usable in MediaPortal, but helpful if you want to back up old tapes or whatever digitally using an external program). Finally, they have just come out with the Dual Digital, which has two digital tuners, one of which uses the PCI slot for transfers, the other one uses a USB2.0 slot (an internal plug is provided, I believe, so you don't have to use one of your external plugs and have a messy cable). While the Dual Digital is not officially supported at the moment, people have got it working with a simple file edit and it seems to work fine.</p><p></p><p>DVD: Being able to copy and burn DVDs will just require a DVD recorder drive on the hardware side. There is no really easy way to burn/copy/rip DVDs from within MediaPortal at the moment (that I know of) so this may have to be done manually (which I don't mind as I like to control the process, but this is a concern for some people).</p><p></p><p>VGA Card: Believe it or not, the 6600GT IS the recommended card for HTPCs, because of its component output (on some/most versions of the card) and because it is the cheapest graphics card that supports some of the nice Nvidia decoding features such as spatial-temporal deinterlacing, which can be important for relieving CPU load for HD viewing/playback/etc. Perhaps a cheaper card can work for you, or a onboard solution as mentioned above. Someone else with similar hardware will have to help you out on that one though.</p><p></p><p>Sound Card: Not my area of expertise, but most people seem to use the SPDIF out on their sound cards to put out a digital sound stream to their home theatre receiver.</p><p></p><p>Motherboard: No idea for Pentium's, I haven't personally had a Pentium CPU since the Pentium 90 (that was a sweet 90mHz of power right there).</p><p></p><p>CPU: If you already have the CPU you can give it a shot. It is hard to say if it will struggle a little with HD content or not. 512mb of ram is fine though, no more is really necessary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jawbroken, post: 31844, member: 14372"] EPG is easy enough to grab, getting extended information such as description and genre can be tough, but there is work being done on an excellent solution to this that will hopefully be seen soon. fathead: He says he has a P4 1.8gHz, so a socket 939 motherboard is not going to help him too much =D Tuner: The Dvico Fusion HDTV tuners, I believe, are the best for Australia as far as I know. You can just pick up a Lite, which will give you single tuner SD and HDTV digital television. If you want more than that, the Plus comes with a remote as well as composite/svideo inputs (not really usable in MediaPortal, but helpful if you want to back up old tapes or whatever digitally using an external program). Finally, they have just come out with the Dual Digital, which has two digital tuners, one of which uses the PCI slot for transfers, the other one uses a USB2.0 slot (an internal plug is provided, I believe, so you don't have to use one of your external plugs and have a messy cable). While the Dual Digital is not officially supported at the moment, people have got it working with a simple file edit and it seems to work fine. DVD: Being able to copy and burn DVDs will just require a DVD recorder drive on the hardware side. There is no really easy way to burn/copy/rip DVDs from within MediaPortal at the moment (that I know of) so this may have to be done manually (which I don't mind as I like to control the process, but this is a concern for some people). VGA Card: Believe it or not, the 6600GT IS the recommended card for HTPCs, because of its component output (on some/most versions of the card) and because it is the cheapest graphics card that supports some of the nice Nvidia decoding features such as spatial-temporal deinterlacing, which can be important for relieving CPU load for HD viewing/playback/etc. Perhaps a cheaper card can work for you, or a onboard solution as mentioned above. Someone else with similar hardware will have to help you out on that one though. Sound Card: Not my area of expertise, but most people seem to use the SPDIF out on their sound cards to put out a digital sound stream to their home theatre receiver. Motherboard: No idea for Pentium's, I haven't personally had a Pentium CPU since the Pentium 90 (that was a sweet 90mHz of power right there). CPU: If you already have the CPU you can give it a shot. It is hard to say if it will struggle a little with HD content or not. 512mb of ram is fine though, no more is really necessary. [/QUOTE]
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