HTPC on the cheap

[Tikker]

This looks like a nice box. reviews are really kind of mixed with most of thecomplaints being on the retarded side


MediaREADY 4000

it looks like almost exactly what I want. anyone heard anything about these?

[Tossica]

I haven't done any research on the subject but how is something like this different than networking a 360 to your regular PC and using it as a media center extension?

[Tikker]

360 forces you to use media center edition as the server

360 can't record tv either, i don't think

it definately can't do picture in picture, rip dvd's and encode them as divx, etc etc

[10sun]

What are the spec's on that system? Vid card / processor / ram etc?

[Gidan]

http://www.vwbinc.com/pdf/MR4000%20Broc ... %20web.pdf

The specs on it are not so hot, though probably more then enough to do what it needs except maybe the hd.

[10sun]

yeah, found the PDF spect sheet. I'm still intrigued, especially if it can be upgraded at all because I have a couple half gig sticks laying around and a couple larger HDs.

-Adam

[Tikker]

http://www.vwbinc.com/pdf/MR4000%20Brochure%205-10%20web.pdf

The specs on it are not so hot, though probably more then enough to do what it needs except maybe the hd.

erm, it's a via chipset

ie, it does audio/video in hardware, so doesn't need to be beefy with cpu/ram

the HDD isn't that important either because it's networked (ie, you can record to a network share, or stream from a network share to it)