If you have been following the blog then you will already know that I have decided to make my own home-brew receiver to use with the MediaBox. There are various types of receivers that LIRC supports, but the one I have decided to make is a simple IR receiver module (TSOP1736) connected to the CD-In port on the motherboard. The reason I have decided to go with this is due to its simplicity.
Well as you can probably guess from the title, I have decided to go with MythTV for our MediaBox. I have chosen this wonderful piece of software for the following reasons
What do we ask of a great media centre PC? Well the purpose if this blog is to find out just that.
My mind has been in gear now for some time to setup the perfect media centre/home theatre PC. I have been doing lots of research over the last 12 months on various pieces of software and hardware that I will be using. Now that I have decided to take the plunge I thought it would be good idea to document the good, the bad, and the ugly. What better way than using a blog!

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