Michal Dobrzynski wrote: >> Besides that I wonder if the XBox is really that much cheaper than an >> epia board with small harddisk plus dvd rom. > > Wonder no more. You can get 2 XBox's for the price of an epia board with > NO hard disj or DVD-Rom. You can get 2 Xbox's for the price of a single > full featured DVB card. In fact you can get an XBox at about the same > price as a decent Linux supported Budget DVB-T card. For the money I've > spent trying to get a PC to do the job reasonably I could have had about > 10 XBox's AND a VDR server with 4 budget DVB-T cards in it. Given the X-Box is basically a PC with a digitally restricted BIOS and has four USB sockets at the front then the cheapest HTPC (and in an only marginally ugly case) is an X-Box with a budget USB DVB-T adapter. For real hack value it might even be possible to cram the DVB-T main board inside the X-Box! Using X-Box Linux you can run VDR directly on the X-Box *without* a second PC. -- Daniel Thompson (STMicroelectronics) <daniel.thompson@xxxxxx> 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol, BS32 4SQ. 01454 462659 If a car is a horseless carriage then is a motorcycle a horseless horse?
