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Originally Posted by Draug
That Antec box looks sweet Mick! $400 is nice and affordable too.
I am looking at setting up a HTPC too since I just moved. Previously, I had my main PC close enough to the TV setup that I just directly connected them and used the same wireless mouse/keyboard. At my new place, that wont work.
Do the advantages of a dedicated HTPC (like yours - love the case) outweigh using Win7 and a PS3? What are the advantages? My main PC has over 4TB of storage, so Hdd capacity is not a factor for me.
I already have a PS3. Either way I will have to run network cable across the whole house because, like you, I have had no luck with wireless keeping up to 1080p.
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I've never used Win7+PS3 so I can't really say how it compares to that.
The biggest advantages to having a custom SageTV (or MythTV - I hear that's good) build that might be harder to get with most setups:
- Auto commercial cutting and video transcoding/archiving
- Auto DVD importing/ripping
- Customizable UI
- Full HD PVR
- Stream your TV to the web (real-time transcoding)
- Cheap extenders (SageTV client extenders are $200 for other rooms - pause your show in one room and finish watching in another)
Streaming TV is one of the coolest things. SageTV natively supports streaming to a browser so you can watch all your recordings and live channels through a browser from anywhere. I've got Orb installed which does the same thing but it streams anything - recordings, live TV (analog only though), etc. to my iPhone.
The only real disadvantage I can think of is that the setup isn't for the faint of heart. It's incredibly powerful but you've got to be prepared to put some time in to get everything set up the way you like it.