Easy: Mythtv backend somewhere (in the basement maybe), very small pc (doesn't need much, not even a hd if you do a net boot) as the frontend hooked up to an lcd and connected to the network over 802.11g. That speed is enough to display SD content. I've done it before using my laptop as a frontend, worked flawlessly.
I did this one way, I got a WRT54GL, installed dd-wrt on it so I could use it as a client. Then I hooked it up to my PS2 running SMS. You can browse a Samba share of DivXs. You can play MPEGs too, but it's kinda crashy-skippy.
It's not the best solution, maybe an XBox with XBMC would be better.
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Easy: Mythtv backend somewhere (in the basement maybe), very small pc (doesn't need much, not even a hd if you do a net boot) as the frontend hooked up to an lcd and connected to the network over 802.11g. That speed is enough to display SD content. I've done it before using my laptop as a frontend, worked flawlessly.
I did this one way, I got a WRT54GL, installed dd-wrt on it so I could use it as a client. Then I hooked it up to my PS2 running SMS. You can browse a Samba share of DivXs. You can play MPEGs too, but it's kinda crashy-skippy.
It's not the best solution, maybe an XBox with XBMC would be better.