Lets see your setup. Post pics.

[sub]

I've often been curious about what sort of cases etc people are using in the HTPC setup. If you've got a digital camera, how about you post us a pic or two so we can all have a look?

Its bit bright outside, and my digital camera seems to be doing a crap job photographing my setup, but I'll upload some photos later today.

Below is an interesting shot of one of my bookcase shelves. I also have several other devices that are not shown here.

[nkh]

Impressive collection Sub, you could start a pvr musseum

My setup lives on my desk (and is, I guess, therefor a desktop computer), in this wooden case:


a mini-itx motherboard on the top shelf, with a pvr-350 (with the blue heatsink) hanging down below next to the harddrives:


there are some other pictures on my website....

This is the second go I have had on making a case, the first using an old vcr that would never have been able to fit the harddrives and pvr card first case (the server has been acting up lately, so if you get an error just keep reloading):

[sub]

I've got a machine in running in an old Mitsubishi VCR. Its quite stylish, but its just running as email server in my closet under the stairs.

[reven]

ok heres my setup

system specs
Celeron D 330, 2.67ghz
GeForce 6600 AGP 128mb gfx card, hdtv out.
PVR 150 and 350
120 gb sata hdd
DVD Writer (forget which model).
256mb ram (getting another 1gb this week)
iMon remote (so can turn pc on/off via remote, never turn it off thou).
Pretty LCD screen thingy
47" widescreen hdtv.

[jorm]

I would never be able to convince the wife to put a computer next to my TV. The MVP was the only way, I am just waiting till she starts complaining about the wires. Sweet setups.

[Networker]

Okay here is my setup. But let me first say, this is what the future case will be in my A/V rack:



Here is my PVR (it's the top left box - Shuttle XPC):




This is where I _did_ have my HTPC/PVR, note the DVD & VHS player, this is my main desk, workstation on the left, my wife's
work PC on the right.



Extra Pics:





John

[hitek146]

I mostly use GB-PVR in my home on one computer to schedule record, and then on my set-top box to view pre-recorded material from the network. I gutted a General Instruments digital cable box, modifying the original power supply to run an ATX-powered motherboard. I wired the IR receiver and the power switch(just for reset, the unit stays on) in the front panel to the motherboard, and configured the system to boot off of the network so there is no hard drive. Here are some low-quality photos I took a while back when I had the unit out of the equipment shelf:





This beast is what feeds the network with video. The rackmount server at the bottom of the top photo is a dual-processor unit that is my main transcoding workhorse, in addition to being my Web, VPN, mail, and global DNS server. Above that is a Cisco VoIP router, then a KVM switch. The VideoTek labeled monitor is actually an all-in-one computer I built with a color LCD display. The faceplate came from a commercial 13" picture tube monitor, and the areas where the speakers are now used to be the control and input panels for the monitor. That thing weighed as much as 3 auto batteries, so I pulled the front frame off and built it into a network monitor/video monitor, made possible by it's built in secondary network card and software video capture card. The two Hi-Fi VCRs feed each other, the video monitor, and the blue and white computer barely seen in the bottom-left corner of the bottom photo.



In the second photo, on the shelf below the rack-mount server, is a fibre optic transceiver and the file server. The file server contains 350GB of internal IDE storage, and controls another 200GB of external SCSI storage contained in the 7 drive tower seen in the bottom of the rack. Below that is the WAN hub(with speed graph LEDs ) and the SCSI system drive of the file server. Below that is the primary router, a Cisco 2621 with 1 Ethernet, 2 Fast Ethernet, and one T1 interface. Below that is a Cisco 2950 switch with the left-most port(port 1) configured to direct all network traffic back to the network monitor in the first photo. Below that is a power strip and a 1500 Watt UPS. At the bottom is an external 47GB SCSI hard drive for the blue and white server to it's left, which has a Radeon All-in-Wonder and a Lifeview TV Walker for the scheduled recording. On the bottom-right is another UPS, and to the right of that is a Dell quad-processor server with a six-drive SCSI array archiving live security footage from here and remotely. This unit also contains a capture card for the local security feed, and another TV card that streams cable television over both the local network and the internet, once logged into the VPN. The security card is also streamed, for viewing both locally and once logged into the VPN. This server also acts as the local DNS and DHCP server and the PXE network boot server for the set-top box....



So... Depending on which host and port I direct my set-top box to, I can see live TV, security feeds, recorded TV programs, movies, or music...

Hitek

[jrockintuitive]

That is some setup Hitek. Lucky for me I don't have a digital camera. I would hate to subject myself to a poor showing after your setup.

I will share my 6X inch Mitsubishi TV- Born in 1981. This thing has 3 bulbs (RGB) that project to a mirror and bounces the image to a canvas. Believe it or not, the picture is amazing.

[dottore]

nice setups!

i won't show you mine, because the pc is behind the tv-set and noone can see it. but i wanted to build a wooden case around the pc and put it in the front. i hope, i can convince my girlfriend!

[cwills]

Here's my setup, with a Silverstone LC03-B case underneath my TV. Everything for the desktop end is ran either by wires through the crawlspace or wireless to a remote desktop, about 15 feet away on another wall.