home audio system

[William Park]

I'm sure you guys did your cost analysis... but, wouldn't it be cheaper
with a low-end laptop or mini-PC box?

- I got bitten by ARM fad and bought BeagleBone Black.  My cost for the
  board itself was $60.  Then, I was looking at microSD,
  microHDMI-to-HDMI cable, HDMI-to-DVI cable (my monitor is DVI), 5V
  regulated DC power block with 5.5mm/2.1mm barrel connector and with
  good transient response (surprisingly difficult to find).  All these
  add up to real money.

- Dealing with flaky Angstrom OS, Debian, and Ubuntu was another issue.

- You learn how to install ARM Debian/Ubuntu, and learned how to
  work-around their proprietary booting process and subsystems.  All
  these knowledge/experience will become obsolete when they release next
  version.  So, you end up doing their QA for free, well actually, you
  pay for the privilege of doing their QA for them.
-- 
William

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> FWIW, earlier this year I decided to pull the plug on Rogers and go
> antenna+Internet.
> 
> Process so far:
> 
>    - Get Rogers out for everything, replaced by teksavvy 50M DSL and a
>    Usenet account
>    - Got  a Channel Mater antenna which feeds into an HDHomerun
>    - Ubuntu server running Plex Media Server, TVHeadend, Sickbeard,
>    CouchPotato and Deluge
>    - Clients are a mix of XBMC and Plex (unfortunately, each has its own
>    set of insufferable flaws):
>       - The main room is a Win7 PC because it is proxied to get US Netflix,
>       Pandora, Hulu, BBC iPlayer as well as Plex Home Theater
>       - I have two Pis running RasPlex and OpenELEC (haven't picked between
>       them yet)
>       - Seriously considering the CuBox <http://cubox-i.com/> to replace
>       the Pi's -- less fragile case and built-in IR receivers
> 
> Still having problems making the TVheadend PVR work. I've been
> experimenting with a few different remotes but haven't yet found one I
> completely like.
> But generally happy overall, and I'm paying $200 a month less than I used
> to.
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