![]() ![]() I would have to install coax cabling then in each room which wasn't and still isn't an option in a older house where all electrical parts are already installed and no building renovations are to be done in the next few years. So I could have chosen a Mac mini with Eye TV which works very good, but that still doesn't solve the second TV problem, because you should buy a Mac mini and EyeTV for each TV you want to connect and want to be able to watch live TV on. There's a nice solution from Elegato to watch satellite TV on your mac or mac mini, it's called EyeTV. Also Windows is more demanding concerning hardware, so building this would become a lot more expensive. Also I would need to pay a Microsoft Windows license which would make the build a lot more expensive and If I would like to watch on a second TV, I should have bought a media center extender such as Xbox. A few media-center choices: 1.1 Choosing Microsoft Windows media-center.īack then I would have needed a FireDTV of FloppyDTV card to work together with TV-Vlaanderen (today more cards are available). Let's take a quick view of the possibilities.ġ. So I needed to take things easy and think about what road I wanted to follow here. I found lots of nice media-center software around, but when reading and comparing all technical information about each piece of software and their hardware requirements, I found out that not all hardware was compatible with each piece of media-center software. It also had to be very easy to use, as we tech-guys say: "it has to be girlfriend-proof"! So I was determined to try to setup my own media-center of choice which can do all of these things in one box without having a pile of audio/video equipment stored in your living room. But you still need a DVD/Blu-Ray player for your movie collection, you still need a pc or other solution to play your digital music collection and so on. I've considered Telenet and Belgacom, both of them allow you to record and pause Live digital TV. Digital TV was becoming more and more popular and in Belgium and we have several choices, but all of them are limited (they offer their own hardware) except for TV-Vlaanderen which is kind of "open source" and leaves the choice of hardware to their customers. In 2010 I have built my own media-center. I'll try to be as complete as possible and more articles will need to follow to cover every part of the build, so here we go. But I thought it was really time to post something new, in particular a mix of old and new information about the media-center build. I haven't posted anything for a year now because last year, 2012, has been quite a busy year, and still some busy times ahead though.
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