User:Bill

Bill lives in Melbourne Australia and works as a Software Engineer for a bio-medical company. At home he likes to tinker with Linux, electronics, and spends way too much time doing Medieval Stuff with the SCA.

MythTV for my brother:

• Hardware
  • Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Cards x2
  • ASUS K8V-X Motherboard
  • AMD 754 Sempron 2600+ CPU
  • ASUS 5200 AGP Graphics with TV-out
  • Seagate HDD 8M IDE 250GB
  • Antec Overture II Case
  • RAM 512GB Generic
  • Pioneer 109 Black DVD-WR x16
• Total Cost is around AU$1000
• Partitioned with LVM so that extra disks are easy to add
• Running Debian Sarge (would use Ubuntu next time)

MythTV for myself

• Hardware
  • Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Card
  • Excel BTTV TV Capture Card (Analog)
  • Homebuilt Intel Desktop PC
• Running Debian Sid as main desktop computer

MythTV XBox Frontend

• Hardware
  • XBox v1.6 (bought 2005)
  • Homebrew modchip (AU$20) from Jaycar
• Software
  • XBox Media Center XBMC
  • Xebian Linux