If you use you PC as a DVR you will not need to pay extra fees that comcast or tivo charges.
is there any particular website that you guys like to use to buy equipment like newegg or cnet or something? Also, I'm looking to buy a laptop battery for an older Inspiron laptop. Any places you guys recommend for buying refurbished batteries?
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Maengelito Wrote:newegg
that's where i bought my components to build my PC years ago and their prices/shipping were the best for what i needed (motherboard, RAM, video card)
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Second the Newegg website or tigerdirect.com or sickdeals.com
On a side note, if you want to turn a computer into a DVR for HDTV content you will need something rather beefy. HD content is rather large and requires alot of CPU power to reproduce. Just for reference a computer I tried to use is a 2.4ghz AMD Athlon XP with 2GB of RAM and a SATA 250GB Hard Drive, ATI Radeon X1300 Pro 256MB. Whenever I went to play something in HD the CPU would max out and the picture would start to jitter and soon the audio would be out of sync.
Right now I use my MacBook Pro which is a 2ghz Core 2 Duo, bought a 25ft HDMI cable from monoprice.com for 20 bucks, and a DVI to HDMI converter for 4 bucks. To get 5.1 surround I also got a 25ft Optical Cable. Now i'm able to play HD content.
If your not worried about HD then any old computer can handle Standard def.
