Long time no see

Ah finally, fetched to box for today, and put it all together. System is already sitting on my TV shelf however some work is still needed…
- second tuner missing (I think I get a second Artec T14 as it seems to work fine)
- antenna splitter needs some work (I’ll put a three way (-8dB) splitter inside the box with one output going out thru the bracket for daisy chaining. This allows placing the two separate USB tuners inside the box)
- libcss needs to be installed for DVD playback
- SPDIF output not configured

Open questions
- check if audio thru HDMI is doable

HTPC (It’s been a while)

No excuses but it has been quite busy time.. anyway the TV arrived in few more days so they didn’t make the 3-5 (work)days but about 7 not too bad.

Now as the ‘output device’ is in order the feeding side needs some attention so I decided to build a HTPC with MythTV. So first targets..
- able to do 1080p
- preferably no separate graphics card
- gig E
- plenty of storage
- DVDRW
- DVB-T tuner(s) (one for start, two later)
- DVB-S tuner possibility (I have dish)
- as quiet as possible
- looks nice (as family approval is needed)

As few of my fellow workmates have such setups already I was recommended to get a Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H motherboard, the thing is that it’s not available anymore so had to change plans somewhat.

Current plan (as ordered)
MB: ASUS P5E-VM HDMI (small, plenty of features, decent graphics with HDMI on board)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 (2.66Mhz 6MB L2)
MEM: 2GB DDR2 800
DISK: SATA II 500GB
DVDRW: SATA 20x
Power: Nexus NX-9003 SFB (Silent)
keyb: Ione Scorpius P20 (nice little wireless keyb+stick combo)
DVB-T tuner:”Artec T-14 based” (Have this one already, so let’s try that first)

Let’s see when things arrive, delivery times range from few days up to over 4 weeks… most component dealers sell what they don’t have.

New to this

Ah, it’s soon 2008 so I decided to join the vast group of bloggers. I have no idea where to go from here but let’s see…