I recently bought a Dell with MCE2005, and love it. I actually can't decide whether I like MCE or BeyondTV better, both work very well. I already want to upgrade my system, to support more tv's(bedrooms, kitchen, etc). I think right now though, my best route is to wait until Vista(supposdely there is going to be CableCard support in Vista, so I can get all the HD channels from Comcast).
How many tv's can a 100mbit network handle to stream video? For example, having one powerful system with the tuners then other computers(mini-computers) in other rooms with BeyondTV link or MCE. Would I need to upgrade to a gigalan? Every room in my house already has 2 or more cat5e wall plugs(wire run when was was being built). I don't like the idea of having a full blown htpc in each room(no central location for recorded shows). I want to buy a NAS to have the video backed up nightly or something(wife wasn't happy when our Comcast DVR hard drive died).
We have 9 televisions in my house(3 being HDTV's). Although rarely are there more than 2 or 3 on at a time. I have an idea on the route I want to go, just not sure if carrying video(possibly HD) over ethernet is going to work? I could upgrade to gigalan fairly easily, I would just need to buy a new network equipment, the wiring is already capable. Perhaps my only option for the HDTV's is to have full blown HTPC's at those computers(play content locally rather than over the network).
How many tv's can a 100mbit network handle to stream video? For example, having one powerful system with the tuners then other computers(mini-computers) in other rooms with BeyondTV link or MCE. Would I need to upgrade to a gigalan? Every room in my house already has 2 or more cat5e wall plugs(wire run when was was being built). I don't like the idea of having a full blown htpc in each room(no central location for recorded shows). I want to buy a NAS to have the video backed up nightly or something(wife wasn't happy when our Comcast DVR hard drive died).
We have 9 televisions in my house(3 being HDTV's). Although rarely are there more than 2 or 3 on at a time. I have an idea on the route I want to go, just not sure if carrying video(possibly HD) over ethernet is going to work? I could upgrade to gigalan fairly easily, I would just need to buy a new network equipment, the wiring is already capable. Perhaps my only option for the HDTV's is to have full blown HTPC's at those computers(play content locally rather than over the network).