mikinho

[mikinho]

[quote=”swoon”]
Too bad this is about 1500 miles away from me!
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Pshhh, I did the drive straight when I moved from SD to Houston!

[mikinho]

Make sure to sign up!

Even if you are not a Media Center user it will hopefully be a good event for any HTPC enthusiast.

[mikinho]

Make sure to sign up!

Even if you are not a Media Center user it will hopefully be a good event for any HTPC enthusiast.

[mikinho]

I do.  The less on the front the better in my opinion

[mikinho]

I do.  The less on the front the better in my opinion

[mikinho]

Definitely agree with Andy.  I can’t imagine a gold color doing well in the US.  I remember seeing quite a few gold AVRs in Singapore and Malaysia but I think that market is fairly limited to Southeast Asia.

[mikinho]

Definitely agree with Andy.  I can’t imagine a gold color doing well in the US.  I remember seeing quite a few gold AVRs in Singapore and Malaysia but I think that market is fairly limited to Southeast Asia.

[mikinho]

From your description I would not recommend a 32GB SSD drive.  Even for a pure HTPC 32GB is fairly tight after updates, caches, ….  You start with 15GB-18GB free and in ~6 months you’ll have 1GB free. 

If you plan to do light gaming and “standard computer” it just won’t be enough.  Most people with a 32GB SSD will move caches, the pagefile and other system folders to their data drive which really limits the usefulness of a SSD.  Spend a little extra and get a 60GB or 64GB drive.

[mikinho]

From your description I would not recommend a 32GB SSD drive.  Even for a pure HTPC 32GB is fairly tight after updates, caches, ….  You start with 15GB-18GB free and in ~6 months you’ll have 1GB free. 

If you plan to do light gaming and “standard computer” it just won’t be enough.  Most people with a 32GB SSD will move caches, the pagefile and other system folders to their data drive which really limits the usefulness of a SSD.  Spend a little extra and get a 60GB or 64GB drive.

[mikinho]

[quote=”RehabMan”]
Also, I was hopeful that this would allow my HTPC to sleep and still allow instant access to the tuners since they would not have the minute-long authorization period as they would have never been powered down…  (waking the HTPC from sleep, then waiting a minute for the Ceton to become available is not acceptable, so now I just keep the HTPC on all the time).
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I”ll need to test but I believe the 1-minute delay will still be there.  Media Center will still need to authorize the tuner for use, the delay in the usage isn’t due a boot up process on the Ceton card.

[quote=”RehabMan”]
My question is why would it be necessary to run a W7 VM on the host PC to make the Ceton share over the network.  Doesn’t it just need a “warm body” — a networked PC capable of loading the drivers or some subset that allows the network bridging to happen?  That is… I hope it does not require a Media Center capable machine as host… as that would open up the possibility of hosting it inside of WHS Vail.
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With network bridging you can do that in Vail, the VM is if you want an always-on machine to do all the recordings.

[mikinho]

[quote=”RehabMan”]
Also, I was hopeful that this would allow my HTPC to sleep and still allow instant access to the tuners since they would not have the minute-long authorization period as they would have never been powered down…  (waking the HTPC from sleep, then waiting a minute for the Ceton to become available is not acceptable, so now I just keep the HTPC on all the time).
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I”ll need to test but I believe the 1-minute delay will still be there.  Media Center will still need to authorize the tuner for use, the delay in the usage isn’t due a boot up process on the Ceton card.

[quote=”RehabMan”]
My question is why would it be necessary to run a W7 VM on the host PC to make the Ceton share over the network.  Doesn’t it just need a “warm body” — a networked PC capable of loading the drivers or some subset that allows the network bridging to happen?  That is… I hope it does not require a Media Center capable machine as host… as that would open up the possibility of hosting it inside of WHS Vail.
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With network bridging you can do that in Vail, the VM is if you want an always-on machine to do all the recordings.

[mikinho]

[quote=”phoneguyinpgh”]
Bummer… ???  So then, another question…  Since you can’t run a virtual W7MC machine inside Vail, would it be better to build a small, always on W7MC machine to just do the recoding & streaming of TV and have it save the recorded programe directly to the Vail box right after recording??
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How many client PCs do you plan to have connected to it?  What are your concerns with installing it on your primary HTPC and letting that “share” the InfiniTV out?

[mikinho]

[quote=”phoneguyinpgh”]
Bummer… ???  So then, another question…  Since you can’t run a virtual W7MC machine inside Vail, would it be better to build a small, always on W7MC machine to just do the recoding & streaming of TV and have it save the recorded programe directly to the Vail box right after recording??
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How many client PCs do you plan to have connected to it?  What are your concerns with installing it on your primary HTPC and letting that “share” the InfiniTV out?

[mikinho]

Assuming you are in PA (inpgh in Pittsburgh?) it really doesn’t matter.

Some Zones pre-orders were sent out early, ahead of their queue) but Ceton will be rectifying that situation so it shouldn’t matter which company you order from.

I’m a bit biased towards Fluid Digital or CannonPC since I had a chance to meet with their owners last month.

[mikinho]

Assuming you are in PA (inpgh in Pittsburgh?) it really doesn’t matter.

Some Zones pre-orders were sent out early, ahead of their queue) but Ceton will be rectifying that situation so it shouldn’t matter which company you order from.

I’m a bit biased towards Fluid Digital or CannonPC since I had a chance to meet with their owners last month.

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