I'm looking for some guidance on which components to buy for a HTPC. I've got/ordered the following so far:
Ordered:
Antec Aria Micro ATX Cube Case - 300W PSU
Asus A7S8X-MX SiS 741GX Micro ATX (Socket A) Motherboard
Already got:
AMD Athlon XP 1900+
512mb DDR266
250gb SATA HDD
256mb Sapphire Radeon 9200
The bit I need guidance on is with the Operating System and TV Tuner card and keyboard/mouse. This is what I want the PC to be able to do:
* record, pause, rewind live TV from both my normal tv and freeview box
* burn recorded TV programs to a DVD (preferably encoded to DivX or similar) for playback in a normal DVD player
* be able to stream files to this PC from my fileserver over a wireless network (b/g)
* play DVDs on my TV
* web browsing with a wireless keyboard and mouse (laptop style combo?)
I've been looking at MythTV for the operating system, but I'm not sure if Windows MCE would be better. If so, I could buy it. My video card has TV out, but I've lost the connector. Is there a TV Tuner card that will have TV out on as well as TV in?
Thanks for any advice anyone can give me