[mythtvnz] New silent Nvidia card / USB DVB-S tuner

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:06:56 +1200, you wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> BTW The GST may only be a 2.2% increase, but I have paid my rates in
>> advance and bought a new camera and am also planning on two more 2
>> Tbyte drives, so it all adds up to quite a reasonable saving on that
>> much money.
>>
>
>In my case if I pay all my rates now I save $22.5 over paying them in
>installments. But if I leave that money in the mortgage I save about $25.88
>according to my crude calculations (real value will be slightly higher),
>more if interest rates rise. I think I'll hold onto the money until I have
>to hand it over. If I didn't have a mortgage the value of interest or
>investment income might be a bit lower. YMMV.

I'm mortgage free.

>As for gear, if you're buying it anyway it's definitely a saving. But you
>could probably do better by just waiting for a sale (or in the case of
>drives just wait a month or two - they seem to drop by about 3-5% per
>month).

True, but I need the storage some time in the next two weeks - TV One
and TV2 going 1080i is causing the free space to drop rapidly.

>Cheers,
>Steve