Dave Sherman wrote: > Hi all, > > <snip> > > One of my design goals is to NOT require a computer in every room, > except maybe a laptop to access the server and tell it where to send the > output. I'm not sure if we need to install separate sound and video > cards for each room, or what. > > I've only just started doing some research on this, so I haven't really > RTFM yet. Just hoping to get a few pointers from those of you who have > done the same or similar. > > -- > Dave Sherman > MCSA, MCSE, CCNA > Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. I'm not sure how you could accomplish this without terminals for the TVs. I'm slowly planing the same thing, but I plan on a pc on each TV monitor. One of the genius points of MythTV is you can have your one central server, and a ton of frontends. I've looked around a lot for cheap and small PCs that would work for a client, and I came up with this: http://www.logisysus.com/ C-BOX 134 2" smallest slim PC, VIA 1GHZ/600MHZ fanless CPU http://logisysus.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24_57&products_id=47 This unit is completely fanless and quiet, and just a little bigger than a standard CD-ROM. It's also only about $370 for their base model. I plan on loading gentoo and MythTV on these as clients. I may even go for mounting the hard drive as read-only, and loading the root from an image to ram. I'm not sure why you would chose not to put a PC in each room, but if it's for noise/power reasons, these are low noise and low power. Plus all you need to run is a Cat5 cable. Just some FYI. Chris