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<div>How about some insight on installation, setup and what not? It's looking very appealing, does it have network access?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Gackstatter</b> <<a href="mailto:Chris@coldspringdirect.com">Chris@coldspringdirect.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After reading all this about the mini-mac and then someone talking about water cooled I am convinced I made the right decision to go with the Roku HD1000 photobridge.
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php" target="_blank">
http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pros</span></font></p>
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">it is relatively cheap -$299</span></font></p>
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">it is fanless</span></font></p>
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">build specifically for HDTV but works fine with SDTV as well</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>-<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span> </span>
</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The portion of MythTV that is already done works great (front end record and watch live TV)
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The roku comes with an remote that will control all of the functions currently available for MythRoku (MythTv roku frontend)
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Roku as a company is committed to open software and provides a Roku SDK free of charge.</span>
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Runs other great apps for integrating your PC to your Home entertainment center (ie: Slim Server and others)
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cons</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>-<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span> </span>
</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">it will only run mythTV as a front end</span></font></p>
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The MythTV port is not completely done </span></font></p>
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</font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">it is new and has a small but growing developer base for MythTV</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I use this product every day, my young kids use this product, and we all love it.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chris</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org" target="_blank">
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a> [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>] <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
On Behalf Of </span></b>Ricardo Kleemann<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:57 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> Discussion about mythtv<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is not a fanless solution, but what do you guys think of this? How does this hardware stack up for mythtv?</span></font></p></div>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It's only $125 with a rebate, just add the cpu, memory, disk. It already has a video card with TV-out...</span></font></p></div>
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<a title="brekkal@gmail.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:brekkal@gmail.com" target="_blank">Alex Brekken</a> </span></font></p></div>
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<p><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a title="mythtv-users@mythtv.org" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">
Discussion about mythtv</a> </span></font></p></div>
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<p><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sent:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:12 PM
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Well I'm not sure I'd call the Mini inexpensive (maybe compared to other Mac's), but the form factor is pretty tough to beat. Is HD even a remote possibility on a Mini, or is it out of the question? I assume you can't use hardware acceleration like XvMC.... If it can't do HD, is the CPU the problem, or the vid card? I'm just thinking that if I wait a bit, maybe Apple will come out with a next-gen Mini with more power.
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<p><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On 10/6/05, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jake</span></b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jakeisawake@gmail.com" target="_blank">
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">i remember seeing someone post somewhere, can't remember if it was<br>this list or irc or what, that had built the mac mini into their tv<br>housing. he had a website with pictures, i think he had some sort of
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