(An Extremely Nerdy) Note to Self
I had (for me) an exciting thought while I was walking home for lunch today: I now know how I will go about setting up my media system at some point in “the mysterious future”.
Until today, I had resigned myself to the following: Use a whitebox Windows tower as my media server, using the machine I purched from Lincoln as the starting point for what would ultimately become a reasonably respectable server, and one that would last me for several years. However, I really don’t need yet another computer to become a semipermanent presence in my life, and I’m also planning on purchasing a Mac Pro down the road as well.
However, I (hopefully) now have another option. If all goes as planned, I’ll be able to pick up a “whatever the final of name of iTV will be” in early 2007. Assuming that if I can set up the iTV such that it will be able to stream live TV content from a TV tuner card I have installed in another machine (say, for instance, in a Mac Pro), I would have one fewer computer to deal with, and would provide me with that I think would be an elegant media center solution.