<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Nathan C. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I was going to suggest a Silicondust HDHomerun as well. But I was wondering about the age of the optiplex. The HDHomerun is for HD only. It doesn't work with my mythtv setup because my machines aren't powerful enough . I have used it with OTA and I can confirm it works.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How fast are your machines? I wasn't aware that it required much horsepower to use that. Or is it just the playback of HD content? I was thinking about getting one of these soon.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regarding video cards, I bought one like this for my standard def tv, it's low profile and it has svideo and dvi out.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
-Nate<br>
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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:59 PM<br>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Media Center...<br>
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Given you want netflix I'd suggest windows 7 home premium (inc. Win media center.) Not knowing your optiplex I'm going to wish you luck on finding a graphics card that will do what you want, but then again I'm used to my work optiplex with half-height cards so I doubt hdmi would be an option in one like mine. For a tuner I HIGHLY recommend an HDHomerun. Works great with my cable. Anyone else tried these with OTA? I think they're ATSC capable. Otherwise for windows I have a pinnacle PCTV HD card that works fine. A warning though, I never got it to work right with a linux system.<br>
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