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HDTV storage needs



On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:37:03AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 10:09 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:21:47AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Yes, but I must confess to lameness: I have not yet run an
> > > > ethernet cable down from the machine room to the den. And
> > > > there's really no room for another backend in the den.
> > > 
> > > 802.11n
> > > No wires necessary.
> > 
> > 802.11g: when you have a limited budget.
> 
> Only g is insufficient for streaming hdtv, unless you like lots of
> stutter, pixellation, rebuffering pauses, etc. 54Mbps my ass. :)

Right. Hence my eventual desire to pull some cable down from the
machine room directly above the den. In the meantime, 802.11g is
perfectly acceptable for getting basic net access down to the
Mythbox to pull SchedulesDirect updates and such.

-dsr-

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