Re:Building a PVR....Where to Start?

[<tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI Mark,

you could put a single or Dual Channel Tuner card in to the PC and use the
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XBOX as the frontend.  I do that and can stream a program on TV via the
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x (XBMC) before it has finished recording on the MCE box - Which I think
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pretty cool - Only issue I have found is that FastForward is a little hit =
and miss, but it might be my network (wireless from MCE recorder to Router
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and then Powerline from Router to XBMC)

The CPU of my MCE machine is hardly troubled by recording 2 simultaneous
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annels, so I figure your machine would cope - your only problem might be
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orage mine uses about 1.2 Gb/Hour - You could use an external USB drive
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h a big HDD in it - I just got 2 x 500gb WD Enterprise drives for =A3107
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livered from Ebay=20=20=20=20

Cheers,

Tim.

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