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Most folks buy their TV's at places like Sears or Best Buy, and there's a lot to be said for plunking your credit card down and driving home with a functional television set. But that's not my style. I've been using a Commodore 64 color monitor hooked up to a VCR since the late 80's and it's worked great. On the other hand, VCR's are going the way of the dodo and a 13" television with weak mono sound isn't much fun so I should probably upgrade.

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HP A2094A monitor - a 20" RGB monitor from an old HP X terminal. Picture tube is a Sony Trinitron.

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HP A2094A monitor - a 20" RGB monitor from an old HP X terminal. Picture tube is a Sony Trinitron.

Intel 815-based motherboard with a 900MHz PIII.
AverTV tuner card. The only component I've had to buy so far, $20 at Compusa.
Sound card (not sure which one yet but the 815 motherboard has built-in sound)

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2008-07-13 - RCN switched over to all-digital last week so I cancelled my cable subscription and it looks as if we'll be TV-free for a while until I can figure out an over-the-air solution. Who knows? We might even benefit from a break in the endless assault of mindless programming.

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2008-08-12 - Upgraded to Debian Lenny. On the server side things look good - the Debian kernel now has the ivtv drivers built in so I no longer have to do all that module-assistant junk that I used to. On the client things also look good, but Xv switched the default display so even though most stuff was displayed on the external monitor, video was displayed on the laptop's panel (which doesn't have a backlight - see above). The answer was to hack the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98xvattr script I made back in 2005:

#!/bin/sh 
xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1

2008-12-17 - haven't been running mythtv for a while now. The combination of netflix and over-the-air broadcast tv is ok, although commercials are a pain. http://elisa.fluendo.com/ - Elisa is another media center project. Looks as if it doesn't do TV yet, but it looks pretty slick.

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