A friend of mine took a lighting hit to his Ceton's, and unfortunately his HTPC is dead. The good news is that he was able to replace his HTPC with a Tivo Roamio, and his DMA2100's with Tivo Mini's. He went from 8 tuners to 6, but the setup up was painless. The Roamio has HBO GO, Netflix...
I for one will hold on to my 7MC for as long as possible. The convenience that I have with its use can not be replicated unless I get 4 new devices, running 5 services, and a multitude of accounts, passwords, and monthly fees. I have the HTPC, an HP x280n, a Linksys DMA2200, and an XBox 360...
Not sure if you I am late, but here are my two cents.'
Replace Vista with 7 64bit. 6gb is sufficient for just about any type of media playback, so while 8 gb is good, it most likely will not offer a benefit.
If your interface is slow, replace the computer.
If your are only having playback...
This computer has been running great for a over a year. Lately anytime I choose a movie from the Movie Folder, WMC closes and restarts. This has no effect on the OS, but the Event Viewer shows this error:
Faulting application name: ehShell.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bd053...
Power Rangers. I am almost willing to trade for your kids. My 8 year old hogs the HT with the racket of explosions in Power Rangers for 1 hour each day. I guess I really do not need to understand why this is something he likes, but my lord that has got to be the worst show ever made. The fact...
Windows 7 64-bit
AMD A8-3870K Unlocked Llano 3.0GHz
Biostart A75MH FM1
GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2 x 4GB)
LITE-ON Black 12X BD-ROM
2 x WD Blue WDBAAX5000ENC-NRSN 500GB 7200 RPM (no RAID)
Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner Card
Small Gamer Case I had around.
Bright House Digital Cable w/ Road Runner...
Hello all,
I am mainly into the HT part of the PC. I have looked into other HTPC forums, and found some interesting stuff. Mine is a work in progress that gets small additions constantly. Over the last year I have tried a few setups with different CPU's, tuners, and cases. My current setup is...