<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:01 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@corwyn.net">mythtv@corwyn.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If all you want is a simple front end, buy a Haupptpage MediaMVP.<br>
Wireless, comes with remote, ~$50 wired, $80 wireless. I'm running<br>
two and love them.<br>
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At 12:53 AM 9/3/2008, Bobby Gill wrote:<br>
>Few questions about running multiple frontends and wired/wireless.<br>
><br>
>I currently run my backend off a server in the basement and my<br>
>frontend is my computer LCD monitor in a room upstairs, all works<br>
>fine. Now if I have an actual TV in another room upstairs, how<br>
>exactly would I turn it into a frontend? My limited knowledge has me<br>
>guessing an S-Video connection to the backend in the basement? But<br>
>that doesn't sound right (do they even make s-video cables that<br>
>would be long enough?). How exactly is this done? And I'm talking<br>
>analog cable TV, and a regular ol' TV no bigger than 30".<br>
><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">>Also, if I wanted to get the frontend going on a laptop upstairs,<br>
>what's the experience with wireless? Of course ours would be a<br>
>private home network with the laptop being the only wireless<br>
>connection. Surely wired is preferrable but is wireless sufficient<br>
>to allow for relatively smooth frontend playback (in terms of<br>
>network speed/access)??<br>
><br>
</div>>Thanks a lot,<br>
>Bob<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Thanks a lot for the recommendations. I just found the MVP: <a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html</a> It looks like the perfect solution. So for my still intermediate self to be clear, I plug the MVP via ethernet to my server in the basement (already have a few long ethernet cables going from basement to upstairs), plug the MVP into the TV and voila, the TV = frontend? I assume it's like Video 1 or something, one of the video inputs?<br>
<br>Thanks<br>Bob<br></div>