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In Reply to: Building a home theater PC on the cheap. Need advice. posted by soundnut on November 18, 2010 at 06:46:35:
> Will this system be fast enough to do this stuff on a fairly reliable basis?
> I'm kinda cash-strapped at the moment, so I can't afford to spend a lot of dough on this project.
It's good enough for playing DVDs, but you're going to need a decent graphics card for HD. You need to provide more specs for the PC; is there a PCI Express x16 slot or is this PC that old that it has AGP?
If the disk drive(s) is/are IDE rather than SATA, then recording and watching (i.e. the "Tivo pause live TV experience) OTA won't be possible.
Do you have a fast enough connection to your ISP?
> Any recommendations on a good HDTV PCI DVR
Digital TV tuners just deliver a MPEG-2 Transport Stream of video, audio and control information to the PC. The "DVR" capability has to be performed by software.
Since you're starting out with WinXP, you need to look for an ATSC Tuner that includes BDA drivers. Most older tuners do have BDA drivers. The newer tuners have no PVR/DVR application software or BDA drivers, and you are expected to use Windows Media Center.
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