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Charles, have you considered Free To Air satellite?

I hadn't even heard of it. What's a solid resource for finding out what content I can get through that?

I suppose I'll follow both pieces of advice and wait for a new MediaSmart machine from HP whenever it's utilizing a newer WHS. How far off is that supposed to be? I haven't kept track.

Probably not terribly helpful but I just found this Lian-Li mATX case...

http://www.lian-li.com.tw/v2/en/product/...x=63&g=spec

Fits a full size PSU, Big CPU heatsinks, 7 hard drives, 1 optical and can handle DUAL Radeon 5770s (and possibly larger cards but I haven't found dimensions on others)

Stick a core i5, radeon 5750 and a bunch of hard drives in there and you'd have a pretty killer system.

Everything I have seen/read indicates it to be 64bit only, but we are talking about Microsloth.

Charles, I'll do my best to help you out, as it has been a few years since I had my FTA receiver.

The best resource for finding out which satellites are available per country is LyngSat . There are also many web sites online selling FTA receivers, like this Canadian one , that are good resources.

When I had my receiver, it was extremely popular amongst people I know. But, some people I know, along with myself, ended up selling their receivers. The only reason I sold mine is because I couldn't get the Leafs hockey games. I do know that one other person got rid of their receiver because they had to update it quite frequently, which turned into a hassle. I'm pretty sure if you have the receiver connected to the Internet at all times, or at least easily accessible to the Internet, then this wouldn't be a problem.

Again, I was heavily involved in it a couple years ago, but am off the beat and track now. If it's the same as what it was when I had my receiver, I honestly think it's the way to go. There's a learning curve, but once you're set up, you're able to watch free television from all over the world, in high quality video and audio.

If I can be of any more assistance, let me know and I'll dig around for you.

Hope that helps.

Cheers.

From what I understand most English language broadcasts have gone encrypted now. The "all over the world", still applies, but nothing from home anymore.

Hmm, that's disappointing.

That's what I figured. Their newest kernel is only being built for x86-64 (maybe Itantium too). Microsoft is slow, but AMD launched their Opteron in April of 2003.

If it's based on R2, it has to be x64. If it's based on 7... all bets are off. But given that they based the original on 2003, I'm pretty sure they'll use the server kernel again, making it require 64 bit.