[mythtvnz] Introduction

[Phillip Baird]

Hello all,

Thought it would be polite to introduce myself before throwing questions 
to the masses.  My name is Phillip, I have a background in Java/C# 
programming with some of it on Unix/Linux boxes.  Have finally convinced 
the "better half " that MythTV is the way to go (rather than getting a 
commercial DVR) and now have to deliver on my promises by the New Year.

I'm still very much at the reading/research stage, but if anyone would 
like to throw their 2 cents in on the following plan then please feel 
free...

Requirements are pretty simple as this stage - simply be able to record 
from the terrestrial free to air channels & play mpg3's.  So the 
configuration I'm looking at is;

Mythbuntu 7.10 combined front & back in a single box
WinTV PRV-350 (hardware mpeg-2 encoding/decoding being the main reason & 
good remote support)
NVidia 6500 (because it has component video output)
1 GB ram
CPU Intel Dual Core somewhere around the 3GHz mark.
500 GB disk.

Things still to be figured out... (suggestions welcomed)
- sound
- motherboard
- case (needs to be black with a simple clean design)
- dvd drive
- wifi to hook into the lan/net

If you've made it this far then thanks for reading.

/PhillipB