[mythtv] XBox - MythTV
Ryan A. Carris
rac at racarris.com
Wed Feb 5 20:30:33 EST 2003
usenet at wingert.org wrote:
>
> My main concern is power consumption. PCs are fairly expensive to run
> for me with 5 TVs to support. Especially if they run 24/7. Linux
> has gotten better in APM, but its still not great. This is the one
> blessing of the TiVo, it consumes about 1/3 of the power of my PC, but
> then again, look at the processor (its a tradeoff).
>
But you still have to power the Backend. With your setup, you have an
Xbox running 24/7 and a high powered Backend system running 24/7. My
setup only has one system running 24/7.
-rac
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