<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Phil Wild <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philwild@gmail.com">philwild@gmail.com</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;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/16 jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jraymyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">jraymyth@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have been doing general upgrades to my home theater and have come to<br>
the conclusion that my current no-name case is butt-ugly. Ideally, I<br>
would like a case that fits with the black component look of the rest<br>
of my components, that has a mATX footprint, VFD/LCD display and<br>
navigation buttons on the front. I would like to avoid those<br>
over-bright displays, as well as those blue on blue VFDs that you<br>
cannot read from a distance. I have an opportunity to purchase a LC-14<br>
for $50. Unfortunately, it is full ATX and lacks a LCD/VFD. For $50<br>
it is tempting to spring for the VFD and deal with the size, but I<br>
thought I would ping you guys for opinions. Any opinions?<br></blockquote></div></div><br><br clear="all">I am strugling through building my first mythtv frontend. I purchased
an Antec Micro Fusion 350 case. The case is nice and small and it has a
front LCD display and remote. The case looks quite nice and is a good size for a micro atx board. The remote is terribly small with only a
few buttons and the LCD display is pretty cheap. It arrived damaged
(the LCD was separated from the backlight) It appears to be held
together with doubleded tape/sticky stuff and won't stay together. The
display went back to the store today.<br>
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The power supply has also just died so I am less than impressed so far.
Perhaps I bought the bad one and no one else has had a bad experience
but have not been impressed so far.<br>
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I have also not been able to get the display or the remote working with mythbuntu but expect that is my lack of experience...<br>
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Cheers<br><font color="#888888">
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Phil<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>I have the same case you refer to. I have been running it 24/7 for about 2 months without any stability problems or hardware failures. The LCD and the remote are a huge pain to get set up. I could not get it reliably working with the remote they gave us. I ended up grabbing the config from some other model and got that remote programmed in my Harmony (what a lifesaver) and now it works reliably. I was able to get the LCD working after some effort too. Again none of these were out of the box with mythbuntu 8.10. There are some good web links I could point you to if you are sticking with the system and need assistance. <br>
<br>Back on topic, I do like this case and find it to be stylish for display in the living room but it is the blue on blue of the other Antec case mentioned above. Prior to this, I tried the SG33G5 from Shuttle which also liked nice but it had perpetual stability problems even with their replacement. <br>