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Tired of paying AT&T and/or TWC for TV, looking to send them out to pasture
Current infrastructure is wireless-N. House is 2 story-good coverage/speed-can stream roku and Sony box to upstairs TVs(x3). Downstairs is 1 TV. No plans to wire house.
Have 10mb internet-(it test out at close to pipe paid for)
Hooked up an old Hauppauge 950Q with the small included antenna to my laptop and able to pull in 15 channels
Needs
-Very simple operation-must have strong WAF(wife acceptance factor)
-ROI in < 6 months(currently paying T around 130/month-internet and TV(u200 and Whole house DVR)
-local Network Channels
-Cartoon Network
-MTV
-Nick and Nick Jr.
-A&E
-relatively quite
Have
("Deals" I've bought and never gotten around to using, just stacked up in the basement for now)
-couple of the Hauppage 950 tuners
-Couple MCE3000 remotes
-Asus M2A-VM motherboard
-AMD BE2300
-Various hard drives both SSDs and SATA
-16GB PC2-6400 memory
-Both an HD4350 and a HD5450 video card
-Antec Case(bigger than I'd like for this-mid size ATX)
-triple back of Win7 licences
Would guess the above parts would/should work for 1 TV
Also have these get used some
(1)Roku 2XD
(1)Sony SMP-N100
(1)WD Live(flashed)
(1)Blueray player
To Buy
If the above will work, I'll need to buy 2 Systems and 1 additional Tuner
Thinking of this for new systems
-Foxconn RM3-H2 Barebone system($69)
-Intel G540 CPU($49)
-4GB RAM*($20)
-will use drives I have for now
-so cost of around $150 for systems x2=$300
-Walmark Yagi Antenna($40)
-Haupagge Tuner($50)
** Total Cost of around $400 **
Plan
-Buy above stuff
-assemble and install OS
-Install Antenna in attic and run lead to current cable splitter box
-Hook them all up
-Teach Wife and kids how to use
-Hope for the best
-Sign up for Hulu Plus and Netflix. These will be used for both non-network channel access and as back-up DVR for network access
I believe my ROI would end up being around 3 months when all is said and done
Questions[/b}
-Seem Do-able?
-The Android/Ubuntu TV-sticks intrigues me. Hauppage I believe has drivers for Ubuntu. I wonder if I could install the tuner into the USB port on one of these devices and get that to work. Anyone tried this or know someone who has? Talk about quite and low-power draw
-would I be better off just buying something like the Digiwave DTV-5000 from summitsource($129) or maybe a PHD-VRX from epvisin($229)
Input and thoughts welcome
Current infrastructure is wireless-N. House is 2 story-good coverage/speed-can stream roku and Sony box to upstairs TVs(x3). Downstairs is 1 TV. No plans to wire house.
Have 10mb internet-(it test out at close to pipe paid for)
Hooked up an old Hauppauge 950Q with the small included antenna to my laptop and able to pull in 15 channels
Needs
-Very simple operation-must have strong WAF(wife acceptance factor)
-ROI in < 6 months(currently paying T around 130/month-internet and TV(u200 and Whole house DVR)
-local Network Channels
-Cartoon Network
-MTV
-Nick and Nick Jr.
-A&E
-relatively quite
Have
("Deals" I've bought and never gotten around to using, just stacked up in the basement for now)
-couple of the Hauppage 950 tuners
-Couple MCE3000 remotes
-Asus M2A-VM motherboard
-AMD BE2300
-Various hard drives both SSDs and SATA
-16GB PC2-6400 memory
-Both an HD4350 and a HD5450 video card
-Antec Case(bigger than I'd like for this-mid size ATX)
-triple back of Win7 licences
Would guess the above parts would/should work for 1 TV
Also have these get used some
(1)Roku 2XD
(1)Sony SMP-N100
(1)WD Live(flashed)
(1)Blueray player
To Buy
If the above will work, I'll need to buy 2 Systems and 1 additional Tuner
Thinking of this for new systems
-Foxconn RM3-H2 Barebone system($69)
-Intel G540 CPU($49)
-4GB RAM*($20)
-will use drives I have for now
-so cost of around $150 for systems x2=$300
-Walmark Yagi Antenna($40)
-Haupagge Tuner($50)
** Total Cost of around $400 **
Plan
-Buy above stuff
-assemble and install OS
-Install Antenna in attic and run lead to current cable splitter box
-Hook them all up
-Teach Wife and kids how to use
-Hope for the best
-Sign up for Hulu Plus and Netflix. These will be used for both non-network channel access and as back-up DVR for network access
I believe my ROI would end up being around 3 months when all is said and done
Questions[/b}
-Seem Do-able?
-The Android/Ubuntu TV-sticks intrigues me. Hauppage I believe has drivers for Ubuntu. I wonder if I could install the tuner into the USB port on one of these devices and get that to work. Anyone tried this or know someone who has? Talk about quite and low-power draw
-would I be better off just buying something like the Digiwave DTV-5000 from summitsource($129) or maybe a PHD-VRX from epvisin($229)
Input and thoughts welcome
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