Last week I bought a Philips 42″ LCD TV. It is capable of showing Full HD content. Taken into account my ever growing collection of Full HD movies, and the growing use of Blue-Ray, we will be fully up to standards for the next years.
However my nature does not allow the purchace of a TV alone. There has to be more intelligence in such a step to be fully satisfactory. Therefore I planned to buy the components for a HTPC and fileserver along with the TV. Plans are to connect them together to get a full media network at home where every device shares its content with the others.
As always this turned out to be a quite ambitious plan, but it can be done. Others did it before me isn’t it?
The chosen software on the systems will be Linux based because I planned to ban purchased software as much as possible in my home situation. For the HTPC Mythbuntu is the chosen OS, for the Server it will be Ubuntu Server Edition and MythTV backend installed later on. I am planning to install Ubuntu on my living room PC as well, but have to be carefull not to annoy the other family members.
In the future I will keep you updated on the progress.
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