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HTPC on the cheap
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:36 am
by 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?
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:40 am
by 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?
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:46 am
by 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
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:25 pm
by 10sun
What are the spec's on that system? Vid card / processor / ram etc?
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:33 pm
by 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.
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:39 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 4:48 pm
by Tikker
Gidan wrote: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)