[PLUG] MythTV on the small and cheap.

Sasha Romanosky sasha_romanosky at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 20 10:12:02 UTC 2004


> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) wrote:
> > This is a common strategy. I follow the MythTV list and users report

> > great success with PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards. However, you are 
> > planning to use an AGP (I assume) video card to display to a
computer 
> > monitor. This is not exactly the setup that most people use with
these 
> > high end PVR cards so I'm not sure how successfull you will be on a 
> > low powered machine.
> 
> I can't understand why not!  I've yet to see a television 
> that has anything like the clarity and crispness of even a 
> moderate computer monitor CRT.
> 

I watch tv on a decent 17inch flatscreen monitor, positioned on my
coffee table, and its great. Not only do I save the cost of a tv, but
the eyesore and real estate of some huge tv across the room.

sasha 






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