MythTV presentation sources and resources.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:11:10PM -0500, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> Just so you know I've  bought a IR blaster / ir receiver before for
> about 20 bucks however you should make sure the following:
> 
> 1. You have enough serial ports (it appears NEW computers are getting
> rid of serial ports) this pisses me off

You can get USB serial adapters, and besides USB ports are much more
useful in general than serial ports.  Serial ports take up a lot of
resources and don't share well.  Modern interfaces share and are much
more flexible.  It can be a bit of a pain if you have a serial device
you want to use, but in general I would love to get rid of all the
legacy crap on the PC (especially the BIOS).

> 2. You have enough PCI slots (most computers nowadays are only having
> 3 or 4 which piss me off toop)

On the other hand in 5 years you will probably be much happier with all
those PCI express slots rather than those obsolete slow PCI slots.

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