]> http://www.blogcadre.com/tag/mythtv en http://www.blogcadre.com/blog/justin/mythtv_high_definition_minimum_requirements_2006_12_02_21_13_05 <p><a href="http://www.blogcadre.com/images/justin/polar_express_jpg_2006_12_02_20_29_33?size=_original"><img class="imageleft" src="files/images/polar_express.thumbnail.jpg" width="149" height="84" alt="Polar Express 720p Frame"></a></p> <p><strong >Why have you forsaken me?</strong></p> <p>My MythTV box has been chugging along nicely, playing DVDs and recording two shows off of a 2-tuner standard definition hardware MPEG encoder card (doing all at once). Just before Thanksgiving, I purchased a projector that can do 720p and had been enjoying the finer detail of my DVDs at full resolution. However, standard definition material <i >really</i> looks like crap when displayed on a 69" screen. Enter: High Definition. I bought a HDTV tuner card, thinking that I had prepared myself for this moment. According to the <a href="http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1">MythTV documentation</a>, the minimum recommended processor speed for recording and playing off of one HD Tuner card is about 2.4GHz. So I built my box with an Athlon XP 2800+ (2083MHz clock speed) thinking it would be up to the task. Think again...</p> hd high definition MythTV Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:13:05 -0600