[olug] HTPC box

[T. J. Brumfield]

I ran XBMC on my original XBox. I was a fan of it. Apparently Boxee is a
fork of XBMC.

What kind of hardware do you use?

Do you have a tuner for DVR-like functionality as well?

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Marc Mapes <marcmdm2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be honest I just use XBMC for my HTPC
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Carl Lundstedt
> <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>wrote:
>
> > I was  all exited when I read the subject.  To me "THPC" means High
> > Throughput Put Computing, ie.  cluster nodes.
> >
> > Sadness.
> >
> > Sorry, can't help with what sounds like a media machine.
> >
> > Carl
> >
> >> Has anyone looked into building a HTPC box recently?
> >>
> >> I'm debating the merits of building a cheap, Linux based HTPC box myself
> >> versus getting a $180 Logitech Revue Google TV box, a $100 Roku box, or
> a
> >> $200 Boxee box.
> >>
> >> My initial instinct is to build a box so I can do whatever I want with
> it,
> >> install other apps, emulators, a full browser, etc. It's just that some
> of
> >> the existing dedicated boxes out there are so cheap, it is hard to
> justify
> >> dropping $500 to build my own.
> >>
> >> -- T. J. Brumfield
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