Building a new pc

In article <U9Ggk.18081$Ri.6768@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com>, "Ed Medlin" <ed@ edmedlin.com> wrote:
>> No disrespect felt. Ed is correct I was offering an alternative. In
>> 20yrs I've bought 3 pre-builts, the last pre-built PC I bought was 12yrs
>> ago from a local. Since then I've done nothing but DIY upgrades, and
>> build lesser PCs from left-over parts.
>>
>> You can certainly DIY, and without argument HP and Dell were (and may
>> still be) proprietary. However, my suggestion was rather than build a
>> new PC to just install a TV tuner there might be a pre-built that you can
>> buy and still install the TV tuner for a comparable price.
>>
>> It doesn't need to be a Dell or HP but should be from good vendor. Years
>> ago, the company where I worked canceled a Dell purchase order to buy
>> from a West Coast vendor that delivered higher powered, fully loaded PCs
>> and monitors, earlier and much cheaper than Dell. We never had a problem
>> with those PCs.
>>
>> The only argument I have in favor of Vista is that its Home Premium
>> Edition is designed for multimedia, and except that Vista is lame for
>> gamers I don't know why it wouldn't work in pre-built PCs that have 1yr
>> warranty.
>
>I have Vista Ultimate sitting on my shelf and am running XP Pro at the
>moment. I just networked my Directv HR20 for Video-on-Demand and now would
>like to serve my music and photos to the unit. I have had no luck in XP
>getting it done. Supposedly, Vista and it's media center act as a server and
>will do it easily.......at least that is what I have read in several forums.
>I have already made a Vista partition and am still debating on dual booting.
>I will have to keep XP because of several apps I really need do not play
>well with Vista.
>
>
>Ed
>
>
Media Player 11 under XP works great. I used it to serve media to my
playstation 3 for a while before i started using Twonkymedia server.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:27:58 -0500, Ed Medlin thoughfully wrote:

>> No disrespect felt. Ed is correct I was offering an alternative. In
>> 20yrs I've bought 3 pre-builts, the last pre-built PC I bought was
>> 12yrs ago from a local. Since then I've done nothing but DIY upgrades,
>> and build lesser PCs from left-over parts.
>>
>> You can certainly DIY, and without argument HP and Dell were (and may
>> still be) proprietary. However, my suggestion was rather than build a
>> new PC to just install a TV tuner there might be a pre-built that you
>> can buy and still install the TV tuner for a comparable price.
>>
>> It doesn't need to be a Dell or HP but should be from good vendor.
>> Years ago, the company where I worked canceled a Dell purchase order to
>> buy from a West Coast vendor that delivered higher powered, fully
>> loaded PCs and monitors, earlier and much cheaper than Dell. We never
>> had a problem with those PCs.
>>
>> The only argument I have in favor of Vista is that its Home Premium
>> Edition is designed for multimedia, and except that Vista is lame for
>> gamers I don't know why it wouldn't work in pre-built PCs that have 1yr
>> warranty.
>
> I have Vista Ultimate sitting on my shelf and am running XP Pro at the
> moment. I just networked my Directv HR20 for Video-on-Demand and now
> would like to serve my music and photos to the unit. I have had no luck
> in XP getting it done. Supposedly, Vista and it's media center act as a
> server and will do it easily.......at least that is what I have read in
> several forums. I have already made a Vista partition and am still
> debating on dual booting. I will have to keep XP because of several apps
> I really need do not play well with Vista.
>
>
> Ed
Yeah, Vista it's like a Win98ME release. IMHO, many of us are waiting for
something better than Vista.

Good for you Sounds great!
So, how did you network the DirecTV DVR? Will you be able save to PC
from DVR and/or serve from PC to DVR?