I need some ideas and opinions. Let me start with my goal and my current setup.
I want to be able to watch TV on the machine in my office. I currently accomplish this by using an ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 and it works pretty well. The big issue I have is the cable going to this card is strung across the floor of my office back over a door to a cable connection in the other room. I want to get rid of the cable and there is no way to get the cable into the wall due to many factors that I have already tried to get around.
What I was thinking about doing was using one of my spare machine and start building a media server. Here is where the questions come in. Should I get another ATI tuner card and use EasyShare to get the signal across the network? Should I get a different type of tuner card (I'm not real thrilled with the ATI card or software)? What other software out there would give me the capability of PVR functionality and the ability to stream the signal across the network. I have started looking at Snapstream's Beyond TV and Beyond TV Link but I know nothing about them. Any opinions?
One other thing that is not important now but will become so later. I need the ability to control the software through HA software and the ability to contorl multiple tuners.
Thanks,
Eric
I want to be able to watch TV on the machine in my office. I currently accomplish this by using an ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 and it works pretty well. The big issue I have is the cable going to this card is strung across the floor of my office back over a door to a cable connection in the other room. I want to get rid of the cable and there is no way to get the cable into the wall due to many factors that I have already tried to get around.
What I was thinking about doing was using one of my spare machine and start building a media server. Here is where the questions come in. Should I get another ATI tuner card and use EasyShare to get the signal across the network? Should I get a different type of tuner card (I'm not real thrilled with the ATI card or software)? What other software out there would give me the capability of PVR functionality and the ability to stream the signal across the network. I have started looking at Snapstream's Beyond TV and Beyond TV Link but I know nothing about them. Any opinions?
One other thing that is not important now but will become so later. I need the ability to control the software through HA software and the ability to contorl multiple tuners.
Thanks,
Eric