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nick.rout at gmail

Aug 8, 2010, 12:57 PM

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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Jessica Perry Hekman
<jphekman [at] arborius> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 04:42:33PM +1200, Tortise wrote:
>
>> Providing a URL to the manual of the TV is often a good way to
>> accelerate the advice given to you here.
>
> My TV's manual is available here:
>
> http://www.retrevo.com/support/Philips-27PT543S-TVs-manual/id/278dj493/t/2/
>
> Right now, I would really like to just buy an Acer Revo for my front
> end, as that seems to be what people here recommend. However, it does
> not have s-video out.
>
> The TV also supports RCA and composite, and I'm fine with using either
> of those. (Would either of them work with the Acer, with some sort of
> converter?)
>
> I was intending to buy a DVI to s-video adapter from Apple ($19):
>
> http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9267G/A
>
> but it sounds like the wisdom from this list is that that won't work
> (and thank you for that warning!). This appears to be what people use
> for Mac Minis, but I'm guessing it is in some way Mac-only.
>
> Is my best bet to buy an Acer and swap in a different graphics card?

You can't swap in a different card.

> Or
> buy a different system altogether? If a different system, I would very
> much appreciate recommendations for an inexpensive front-end that will
> output to my TV.
>
> Although I previously said that I wanted the ability to go to HD later,
> that isn't all that important. If it makes anything easier to give that
> possibility up, I'm happy to. I'm a student living entirely on loans,
> and looking at probably at least another five years of low income, so I
> don't really expect to buy a good TV any time soon. (I have some hope
> that my boyfriend might, and then I'd get to use it, but obviously best
> not to bank too much on that :)
>
> As always, thanks to everyone for all the information! This list is like
> unto a fire hose. It's great.
>
> Jessica
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Subject	User	Time
Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 6, 2010, 9:38 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	beww at beww	Aug 6, 2010, 9:50 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 6, 2010, 11:35 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jedi at mishnet	Aug 6, 2010, 12:25 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 6, 2010, 11:06 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 6, 2010, 11:39 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	kevin at familyross	Aug 6, 2010, 11:54 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 6, 2010, 11:57 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	oliver.greg at gmail	Aug 6, 2010, 12:08 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tylernt at gmail	Aug 6, 2010, 12:48 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	nick.rout at gmail	Aug 7, 2010, 7:16 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 7, 2010, 9:42 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	raymond at wagnerrp	Aug 7, 2010, 10:00 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 8, 2010, 6:30 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	nick.rout at gmail	Aug 8, 2010, 12:57 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 8, 2010, 3:05 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	beww at beww	Aug 8, 2010, 3:23 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 9, 2010, 9:05 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 9, 2010, 9:21 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 8, 2010, 3:49 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 8, 2010, 4:39 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 9, 2010, 9:02 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 9, 2010, 1:00 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 9, 2010, 1:13 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	kevin at familyross	Aug 9, 2010, 3:40 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 9, 2010, 3:58 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 9, 2010, 8:45 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	kevin at familyross	Aug 9, 2010, 10:06 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 10, 2010, 6:29 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 9, 2010, 10:19 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 10, 2010, 5:24 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 10, 2010, 6:25 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 10, 2010, 6:47 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 10, 2010, 7:02 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 10, 2010, 12:41 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 10, 2010, 1:24 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 10, 2010, 2:01 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	mythtv at theseekerr	Aug 10, 2010, 4:19 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	oliver.greg at gmail	Aug 10, 2010, 6:10 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	eric at lisaneric	Aug 11, 2010, 6:15 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 11, 2010, 8:51 AM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	tortise at paradise	Aug 12, 2010, 1:28 PM
Re: Plans for front & back end Myth boxes	jphekman at arborius	Aug 12, 2010, 1:37 PM

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