Myth TV? MCE? What to choose...

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my...

Starting to think about a replacement for Tivo, especially as our is on the
fritz and I'm not looking forward to the hassle of getting it fixed for
what
is (at the end of the day) a very slow, feature poor DVR.

We loved the Tivo, but it's missing stuff that we would (I think) rather
like - watch one, record another and so on.

Having a good old think about it, Sky + seems overkill - we watched so
little Sky that we haven't had a conflict in wanting to see/record
something
in over four years - and where we have, the conflict has been between the
Beeb and Sky One.

I'm thinking about MCE, or MythTV and running a DVB tuner and an Analog
tuner (the WinTV PVR 150 probably) with the thought that the Analog bod
will
be used for Sky, and the DVB for freeview.

It would be great if I could also set up a streaming server allowing a
regular PC client to display what's being put out on the TV without needing
it's own TV tuner...

We commonly have the Projector going in the living room, and would love to
have the Kitchen PC (a mini-itx with a 15" LCD panel mounted into the
wall)
able to show what was on the big screen.

So, has anyone tried something like this? Suggest any good hardware? Would
the nebula DVB card which can do whole multiplex recording work with Myth
TV
for instance? Is there an RGB capture card that could work well with the
Digiboxes RGB output?

I'm interested to see what others have done here - it strikes me that this
stuff is getting quite mature!

Ian.

I can't see us having too many problems at that.