Home Theater PC Build with possible 3D BluRay Playback and Streaming

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silem86

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I am working on specing out a new home theater pc and need some guidance.

I read a few articles leading me to understand that there are some basic requirements for recording TV channels recorded/watched simultaneously. What I read so far was 2GB of ram per channel, and 1 core per channel. What I would like to do with this new build is stream from streaming sites, record multiple tv shows, and have 3D BluRay Capability. If possible I would also like to use this to stream to other devices at home (quite possibly to a Rasberry Pi).

I currently have a Ceton InfiniTv quad tuner and I also have a Hauppauge WinTV 2250 dual tuner. At present I am not sure if I want to use them both or use the InfiniTV only.

Are there any CPU/GPU requirements that I should be aware of? Will 2GB ram per channel be sufficient? Would it be better to use only one capture card at a time (and store the other in a static bag until I intend to swap out)?
 
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yes to play blueray you need a decent videocard capable of outputing hbcp complience streams through a hdmi port and not reall but i would use one caputre card to avoid weird issues, and not a decend dual core should due but a quad would be ideal or you could even do a apu
 
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The Hauppauge WinTV 2250 card is only going to pick up whatever channels are broadcast unencrypted by your cable company (probably just your local channels). I'm not sure how you can assign specific channel recordings to a specific tuner card. Personally, I'd just go with the Ceton card and call it a day.

Your HTPC does not need to be all that powerful. I've run my Ceton card in an HTPC with just a dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM. That system did successfully record three channels simultaneously while I watched a fourth. However, if it is your intention to assign tuners to other devices (extenders), then you'll want at least one CPU core and 1GB of RAM per assigned device.

Today's integrated graphics solutions from Intel (HD4xxx series) and AMD (APUs) should be sufficient for Blu-Ray playback, but I've always preferred having a discrete graphics card on the off chance I need to re-purpose a system (which I've had to do).

-Wolf sends
 
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As far as live tv goes, I would only need to stream to one other device in the house that's not to say that things wont change later. I am kind of curious that if I am using this also as a media server how that changes the specs (if at all).
 
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