OT Media Center PC

RogerN · 2011-01-09T18:28:27+00:00

I made the home made antenna to receive digital TV for free, it works well even though I have it inside the house, I'm getting around a dozen channels or so, some duplicates. Small tower and outdoor antenna is planned for future project.I've been thinking about setting up a media center PC so I can have a digital video recorder, digitize old video tapes, and play movies.So far my plan is to get a cheap PC that's good enough to play video, install my Hauppauge WinTV card, get a video card that will play on the TV, connect to my home network. My WinTV board was for Windows Media Center edition, I don't have on my desktop PC, so the IR receiver, remote, and IR transmitter doesn't work with Windows XP Pro.Anyone here done similar with windows or Linux? Any recommendations? Do video cards with TV out work like a 2 monitor setup with windows desktop on one monitor and TV on the other monitor, or does it just work as using the TV instead of a monitor? I thought maybe I could use UltraVNC from my laptop to select movies to play on the TV.RogerN

Jan 09, 2011 22 Replies

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clare 15 years ago

Plasma is inherently faster than LCD, regardless of the refresh rate.

60 "strobes" when you turn your head with a flourescent light on nearby.

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Rich Grise 15 years ago

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Maybe if they want to be respected they shouldn't go around flashing all that cleavage in everybody's face.

Thanks, Rich

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Martin Eastburn 15 years ago

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