Re: DVR v Windows MCE

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

£1000?  Are they having a laugh?


Stuart McMillan wrote:

>Most of the big boys announced ViiV based Media Centers at CES. We've
got
>initial details of the Sony and Fujitsu-Siemens here
>http://www.mediacomputers.co.uk/shop/acatalog/Intel_ViiV.html
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>ViiV is Intel's attempt to do a Centrino with Media Centers based on
dual
>cores P4s with 945 chipsets. The details are sketchy to say the least
but
>there is talk of SCART out amongst other things.
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>Stuart
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>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>Kim Wall
>Sent: 13 January 2006 00:18
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] DVR v Windows MCE
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>Jim Andrews wrote:
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>>My concern about the DVR's are the many idiosyncrasies that seem to
be
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>reported
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>>and that no single unit seems to be intuitive AND complete in its
feature
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>set.
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>>With quality dual tuners now appearing, is MCE the route to go?
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>>Cost is not a factor, I just don't want to make a decision I'll
later
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>regret!
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>Just to complicate matters, I'm going to mention MythTV  -
>http://www.mythtv.org/
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>It's Linux based, so no Microsoft tax, and I believe the featureset
>compares favourably to MCE, especially in a networked environment.  On
>the other hand it's a Linux based open source project, so you might run
>away screaming at the very idea :)
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>Kim.
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