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#400665 5-Nov-2010 11:57

We have:

1x29" CRT in the rumpus room

A 5.1 DVD system in the rumpus room (only 3.1 speakers set up!)

1x21" CRT in the living room

TiVo in the living room ("I love my TiVo").

A second DVR in the rumpus room would be fantastic. Currently can't be bothered watching TV in the Rumpus Room as analog reception is sucky compared to digital.

Existing UHF aerial "just worked" like magic.

James Hippolite
BCA, MCP, MCSD.NET, MCITP, MCPD, MCT

Yojimbo

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Wannabe Geek

#400668 5-Nov-2010 11:58

There's a satellite dish on the roof installed by a previous owner. Otago Aerials popped in for me, installed a splitter, and two cables run across the roofspace and down to a linux server ... this has two Technotrend DVB-S cards in it, sold to me by Hads at http://nicegear.co.nz/.

The server was originally installed as Mythbuntu 9.04, but subsequently just upgraded as ordinary Ubuntu. The server used to live in the roofspace, but HDD temperatures ranged too widely between winter & summer, getting uncomfortably close to the supported tolerances. I moved it down into a re-purposed linen cupboard!

Anyway, MythTV records programs we like, dropping them into a 1TB RAID-1 partition. There is no MythTV frontend in use though ... not too keen on noisy machines in the living room.

Every hour I build up a set of symlinks to the programmes, in the traditional "programname/episode.mpg" format using mythrename.pl. This structure is rsync'd down over NFS onto a PopcornHour A110, which has a 1TB drive onboard. We watch programmes from the Popcorn Hour, direct to the TV. Another part of the rsync script looks for "programname" directories in other places, and if they exist it hard-links the files into there. That way I can have a "Kids-TV" directory and only the stuff I choose gets in there; the kids can watch anything in there but have to stay away from the more general "TV" directory.
Popcorn Hour A-110

The only problem with this scheme is that *deleting* doesn't work too well. Eventually the Popcorn fills up and we zap a few directories. However, the Popcorn Hour can play back from the MuthTV server over NFS, so we can always catch up with the most recent recordings, even if the copy process has broken.

For the TV listings, we just use the MythTV web interface from one of the many computers, laptops, netbooks and phones around the house. All Linux devices (Ubuntu or Maemo or whatever the Popcorn Hour distro is ... but it is a Linux) except for one "work laptop" which will be going back soon.

lynxdog

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Wannabe Geek

#400670 5-Nov-2010 11:59

My Setups :-

Lounge

42inch Sony Wega Rearpro 720p 3lcd
HP A1555 Media Center with Windows 7 Home Premium X64
4 GB Ram, 2TB HDD, 1 x Hauppauge HVR1100 & 1 x USB DVB-T
DVD/BDROM, Logitech Z5500 :-)

Office

22inch AOC 2230fm Monitor (VGA/HDMI/DVI)
HP M7299a Case with Gigabyte GA33M Motherboard
Windows 7 Home Prem x64, 4 GB Ram, 9800GTS Videocard
2 x USB DVB-T's, DVD/BDRe, 2TB HDD

Bedroom

32inch Philips 32wide CRT Component
HP A1555 Media Center with Windows 7 Home Premium X64
2gb ram, 1tb hdd, 2 x USB DVB-T's, 8400GS VideoCard

All connected to my Custom Windows Home Server Box
All PC's Gigabit network.
4TB HDD. Which is all connected to my 5 Xbox 360's & 2 PS3's

findmestuff

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Wannabe Geek

#400671 5-Nov-2010 12:00

Hi, I have:

UK 32" LCD TV from Vistron. a cheap make I bought from ebuyer, but apparently according to the hundreds of reviews it had it uses a Samsing panel and Philips electronics. Really good picture and works well as a monitor. Didn't expect it to receive analogue TV here because UK uses UHF and NZ uses VHF & UHF. I scanned and found everything straight away. Folks have told me that more expensive models are likely to be country specific whereas cheaper stuff is made to work everywhere.

Old KiSS DP-450 DVD player. It was the first DVD player to support DiVX playback. It is really a DVD-ROM drive in a box running embedded Linux. Very old now but still works well.

A Yess DVB-S satellite receiver connected to an old SKY dish and a 250GB USB hard drive. Bought off Trade me. Allows you to record TV shows or pause live TV. Has the advantage that you can archive the recording to your PC, but the firmware is horrid. Full of bugs and loses the time after every recording. Usable but a right pain in the backside.

A mythtv box. This is based on a mini-ITX VIA EPIA motherboard. Totally fanless with an alloy block on the CPU connected via heatpipes to a huge heatsink down the side of the case. Used to have 2 DVB-T freeview cards in it in the UK. Could record multiple channels and play back a recording at the same time. UK freeview was standard def. I tried to get it working with an HD Homerun here. It would not touch HD playback but it seemed to be able to cope with recording. However I could not figure out the EPG for terrestrial TV. I tried getting it from scripts on the web but I failed totally. I tried getting it from DVB-S but could not get the channel numbers to match up. Not going to buy a nice front end for playback when I can't get the backend working!

I play everything through my analogue amp. Would like a nice surround sound system one day but don't have a sensible recorder yet so will stick with nice quality stereo speakers for now.

Also have an XBOX classic that runs XBMC. So cool piece of software. I think I might turn the mythtv box into a media server and use the XBOX as a frontend.

To sum up, stuff still works but DVB-T in NZ means my systems can't really cope with the high def and we are stuck with a buggy satellite receiver that often chooses to screw up recordings.

DestRoYeDnz

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Master Geek

#400674 5-Nov-2010 12:03

Sony Bravia 50" Rear Projection 720p, Beautiful Picture, Tuned with the DVE HD Basics Blueray Disc

Pioneer THX Receiver VSX-D2011 running 7.1

PS3 60g Original

Windows 7 Media Centre HTPC - Freview|HD
*Intel Q6600
*6Gb RAM
*7Tb Drive Space
*Dual DVB-T Tuners

Controlled using a Logitech DiNovo Mini or Logitech 525 Remote

henareho

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Wannabe Geek

#400676 5-Nov-2010 12:05

We have

* 1 x 29" Panasonic TV, 1 x Panasonic 15" TV (both 20 yrs plus)

* 2 x Sky digital (multi room) - good for watching TV in bed or when the kids want to watch Nick

* 1 x Panasonic VCR (9 yrs old)

* 1 x Panasonic 5 Disc DVD Home Theatre (9 yrs old)

These items in seriously need of an upgrade as no HDMI.
My 9 yr old son uses a VGA-to-TV adaptor to display movies from his PC on the TV.

Thanks in advance.

Henare.

kiwijunglist

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#400681 5-Nov-2010 12:10

ZALMAN: I have my sky hdi with a 58" samsung 3D plasma
HTPC, PS3 and a XBOX 360

what's ur address?

HTPC / Home automation (home assistant) enthusiast.

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julianz

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Master Geek

#400682 5-Nov-2010 12:10

Media PC built around an AMD 780G board, a couple of Hauppauge cards, Vista 32 and MediaPortal.

Sony 32" TV (could do with being slightly bigger in this house)

Analog Sky decoder plugs into one of the cards in the PC

Yamaha amp

Late 60's Tannoy 15" Red speakers in custom boxes (they sound really amazing)

The TV is sitting on an old NZ-made Leslie organ cabinet with a rotating baffle. That's not part of the setup though!

CasperNZ

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Wannabe Geek

#400683 5-Nov-2010 12:10

I'm entering on behalf of my parents...

They've both just been cleared after having cancer (breast for Mum and bowel for Dad), so it's been a very busy and stressful year for them and with all the drugs they find they can't stay up to watch the shows they want in the evening.

They have a widescreen CRT TV and a standard Freeview unit, but have no way of recording so this would be perfect for them :)

My kids (their grandkids) watching Freeview at Grandma & Grandad's

My kids (their grandkids) watching Freeview at Grandma & Grandad's

No1Daemon

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Master Geek

#400684 5-Nov-2010 12:10

I badly need another toy!

I have a 50" Samsung LED Television
Onkyo Amp and receiver
Wharfedale Speaker system
Popcorn C-200 with 500GB internal HDD
Logitech Harmony 1000 remote system
Wii nintendo game system

Just using the internal tuner on my Samsung at the moment. Wheres the fun in that?
With the logitech remote even my wife and kids can use it so I need to mix it up a little and throw some new technology into the mix to confuse them again.
My Setup

BlackMael

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Geek

#400688 5-Nov-2010 12:13

40" Samsung HD Ready :'(
Sony 7.1 Home Theatre
PS3 Slim
MySkyHDi (no HD ticket but then I don't have Sky Sport or Movies, but still get HD for TV1, TV2 and TV3)
Currently MagicTV Freeview PVR but that is ear-marked for mother-in-law when we go visit next.
The All New Apple TV
Basic media PC running XBMC

My Home Theatre

casewindow

310 posts

Ultimate Geek

#400691 5-Nov-2010 12:17

At the moment we have the following:

Lounge:

Sony Bravia 40" W series 720p LCD screen

Denon AVR589 A/V Receiver (Connected to the TV via HDMI)

Magic TV PVR (connected to the A/V via HDMI)

Philips 3360 Upscaling DVD Player (with USB port for Divx) (connected to the A/V via HDMI)

Sony portable dvd player (as a second DVD player with an aquarium DVD in it) - composite to TV

Nintendo Wii - Component to TV

All controlled by a Logitech Harmony 525

Bedroom

Sony Bravia 32" K series 720p LCD Screen

Zinwell 620HD Freeview connected via component to the TV (so not actually HD sadly)

AWA cheapie DVD player from DSE (connected via component to the TV)

MaxLV

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Ultimate Geek

#400692 5-Nov-2010 12:19

MaxLV: I have:

Sony Bravia 32" LCD connected to Home Network for streaming videos from the net, and PC access.

Sony STR-D565 Receiver for Stereo audio from TV, Home PC Network, DVD Player and Telstra T-Box

Sony DVD Player

Telstra T-Box PVR

Nozza

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Wannabe Geek

#400693 5-Nov-2010 12:21

Excellent!

I've been mucking around with an old Pentium III running MythBuntu on it but without a DVB card! Not much use at all really apart from playing sounds.

I have hooked this antiquated struggling old Dell up to a Sony Bravia 19" (I live in small house) but again, without a DVB card, enough disk space and a decent graphics processor (all missing) it's not much use.

I could win this and give the Pentium III away on e-Waste day!

GR8Metal

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Wannabe Geek

#400696 5-Nov-2010 12:23

I've just got a 42" LCD and XBOX 360. We used to have sky but couldn't afford it so we got rid of it. The HT9200 would be awesome!

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