Home theater, want to make my PC more quiet

[Col. Skillz]

Hoi you know I was looking at one of those fancy cards there but I get lost in options, could you recommend any Art? I did want one with an HDMI input and output but I don't know if they are available yet or not. Whaddyasay?

I have always been a fan of Hauppage cards personally, they are designed to work natively with XPMCE 2005 and Vista Premium (with updated drivers) without needing to run an external program to record.
It depends on what input you are using what the card choice is, which is why I mentioned satellite cable or terrestrial or broadcast tv since I did not what the options are up there in moose land. You do not need an output from the card itself unless you are going to use the card in pass through mode, so as I said the broadcast source defines the type of card you are after.
I have an older PVR150MCE card running perfectly under XPMCE and it is recording via the component input on the card.

Actually here is a pic of my setup:



And because I hate the guess where the remote game is , I bought this to run the system:

/drool....this is a man with taste. Samsung screen, logitech remote...it doesn't get any better.


I might as well add, to keep my PC even more silent than it already is, I keep in a cabinet with an opening door. My desk is built perfectly for this so I jsut slide in my tower and clsoe the door. Shaves off a ton of noise. It doesn't get hot either, there is a hole in back and I take off the side door to my PC. It makes swapping out Hard drives a breeze also.