The_Other_One
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A little background first. For ages, I've wanted to make a PVR of my own, but never have due to lack of time and having no real need for it. What can I say, I'm super cheap 
Even so, I still like to look around at hardware and thing what I would use to make such a system. However, recently, I began to think what the best option would actually be.
So, how would you make your home theater. I don't care for specfic brands and models of anything. Basically, I'm wondering if you guys would build a computer to play your files back and record, or just rely on other devices(DVD players, Tivo's, etc etc)
This probably won't matter much in the near future because with HD-TVs, you could use use DVI/VGA inputs and not worry about quality loss. However, with your averate TV today, a DVD-Player has MUCH better quality than a computer using TV-Out to play a DVD. Among this, other things like upgrades. With a computer, you could just throw in a Blu Ray drive, assuming it's not all that old. As for stand alone hardware, you'd have to toss your DVD player and upgrade to the new device... But then again, with a computer, you might have more maintences and a harder time controling it(if you just want a remote)
Any comments? Have fun if you guys want to build some machine or whatever. It's not really what I'm looking for, but it might be neat to know what everyone's perfect PVR is
Even so, I still like to look around at hardware and thing what I would use to make such a system. However, recently, I began to think what the best option would actually be.So, how would you make your home theater. I don't care for specfic brands and models of anything. Basically, I'm wondering if you guys would build a computer to play your files back and record, or just rely on other devices(DVD players, Tivo's, etc etc)
This probably won't matter much in the near future because with HD-TVs, you could use use DVI/VGA inputs and not worry about quality loss. However, with your averate TV today, a DVD-Player has MUCH better quality than a computer using TV-Out to play a DVD. Among this, other things like upgrades. With a computer, you could just throw in a Blu Ray drive, assuming it's not all that old. As for stand alone hardware, you'd have to toss your DVD player and upgrade to the new device... But then again, with a computer, you might have more maintences and a harder time controling it(if you just want a remote)
Any comments? Have fun if you guys want to build some machine or whatever. It's not really what I'm looking for, but it might be neat to know what everyone's perfect PVR is
