| Hometheater PC is the only way to go. Cablevision is forcing this to happen.
160gb is laughable.
My Media center PC.
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442 hours of HD recording time.
When you're looking for a movie on cable, this is what it looks like:
(No I didn't do anything special to get it to show up this way)
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The guide:
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Not only does it scroll as fast as you can scroll. If you go to the left you get a TON of options.
- Searching for shows is easy and fast.
- No channel change lag.
- No lag at all actually.
- Press ONE button to go to the guide.
I'm never going back to a cable box. |
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 RobIn Deo speramus.Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:3 | Where did you get/build that media center ? |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | reply to CTMustang
said by CTMustang:My Media center PC.
442 hours of HD recording time.
When you're looking for a movie on cable, this is what it looks like:
I'm never going back to a cable box.
And where do you get all that content that you are recording? Is it legal content? Or are you violating copyright to get it? |
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 Augustus IIIIf Only Rome Could See Us Now....
join:2001-01-25
Gainesville, GA | said by Linklist:said by CTMustang:My Media center PC.
442 hours of HD recording time.
When you're looking for a movie on cable, this is what it looks like:
I'm never going back to a cable box.
And where do you get all that content that you are recording? Is it legal content? Or are you violating copyright to get it? does it matter?;no. he has an awesome setup! that matters! |
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 DaveDudeNo Fear
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said by Linklist:said by CTMustang:My Media center PC.
442 hours of HD recording time.
When you're looking for a movie on cable, this is what it looks like:
I'm never going back to a cable box.
And where do you get all that content that you are recording? Is it legal content? Or are you violating copyright to get it? If you have a quad tuner , you could do that in a 2 weeks. 500 HD is not really alot.
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Billings, MT | ..wonder if he was one of the lucky few to get the InfiniTV Quad Tuner.
Plus, HDD space is freakin' cheap. I built a 6TB RAID5 (4x 2TB HDDs) for under $300. Actually, one box I have has 4.01TB (4x1.5TB), second and third have 5.45TB (4x2TB) each.
..and I paid under $800 for all that space.
Like I said, HDD space is cheap. Just keep an eye on Newegg.
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said by Augustus III:said by Linklist:said by CTMustang:My Media center PC.
442 hours of HD recording time.
When you're looking for a movie on cable, this is what it looks like:
I'm never going back to a cable box.
And where do you get all that content that you are recording? Is it legal content? Or are you violating copyright to get it? does it matter?;no. he has an awesome setup! that matters! Of course it matters. He is trying to compare his setup to a cable company's DVR. He would have to be on equal footing to make that comparison.
I could put every movie ever made on a storage system at home and say I have more streaming movies than Netflix, but does that matter to the average Netflix user? |
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setup being awsome? LAMO! it's Media Center! big deal! My laptop can do that!
And yes it does matter as far as copy right. He's bragging on something he downloads illegally and considers it "his". When actually its not anywhere near his. |
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NyNexit
join:2009-11-01
Huntington, NY | reply to Simba7
Thats a lot of money to watch TV, Is it evenpossible to watch all of it? |
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NyNexit
join:2009-11-01
Huntington, NY | reply to hottboiinnc
I love it when people spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on media centers to "save money" because he doesn't pay Netflix $8 or $15 a month for a DVR. |
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said by DaveDude:If you have a quad tuner , you could do that in a 2 weeks. 500 HD is not really alot.
No, 500GB isn't a lot if you record a whole bunch of things in 2 weeks. But what is the point?
Isn't it pointless if you can't watch everything you recorded? I assume you can't watch it all, since presumably you'd be recording TV shows that come on every week, and would never be able to catch up on all the shows. And while you are watching something, something else would be recording.
You want quad tuners so you can record when there are up to 4 shows on at the same time that you can't miss. You don't use quad tuners to record everything and then never have time to watch it.
I guess maybe some people plan their TV viewing for 3 or 4 years down the road.
"I'll record seasons 1, 2, and 3 of Breaking Bad, and watch them a couple of years from now while I'm recording seasons 4 and 5, and trying to catch up on American Idol seasons 9, 10, and 11." |
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You guys are ridiculous... I pay for a cable card. It's 100% legal. All of my dvr'ed shows come from cablevision. I also have 5 tv's in the house with 4 people recording stuff.......it's a whole house dvr using xbox360's as extenders. |
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I love it when people can't open their eyes to the world of no lame cablevision box.
netflix also is part of media center. |
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It's all legal content, I don't know how you would "record" illegal content.
Sure you can download movies, but that wouldn't count towards my DVR hours. |
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When you have 4 people in a house all sharing the same media center pc - it really isn't that much.
Before this we had 5 boxes, 4 dvr's, all tivos I paid a total of 852 for this setup... it will eventually break even. However in the mean time we have a MUCH better setup.
A REAL whole house dvr. |
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It's the freedom to do what you want - which is why I built this.
I actually have 7 tuners. 5 of them can record any channel, 2 of them only record channels 2-30.
Like I said I have 4 people in this house and we all love different shows. We also have two vulkano's (like slingbox) because 2 of us are on the road A LOT and watch our shows from outside the house 70% of the time. |
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It's actually a core 2 duo Dell XPS 420. Nothing special about it. Old 8800gt video card.
Media center really doesn't need anything too much to be usable. |
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said by hottboiinnc:setup being awsome? LAMO! it's Media Center! big deal! My laptop can do that!
And yes it does matter as far as copy right. He's bragging on something he downloads illegally and considers it "his". When actually its not anywhere near his.
1. I don't consider it "mine"
2. How the fark do you come in here assuming I'm downloading illegal content when we're talking about DVRing shows.
3. You look like an asshole with this post.
4. I pay for a cable card and we record shows we want, it's paid for. So suck it. |
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| They are just clueless. People don't realize if you record a series like all the CSI's the will be 72 hours of shows. Kick in some movies and you get to 42 hours. I Have thought of this set up but since I have Directv it complicates it with no Auto tune. |
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RobIn Deo speramus.Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:3 | reply to CTMustang
Thanks. I'm still "new" to this hometheater stuff, what software are you running to get that guide? |
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