Requirements for the perfect home entertainment system:
- fast
- silent
- good-looking
- sound-card (digital in- and output, coax and optical)
- tv-tuner / capture card with hardware MPEG encoding / decoding (Hauppage WinTV 350?)
- at least S-Video output
- cd playing and recording
- dvd playing and recording
- Hauppage WINTV PVR 350 + 150 ?
- The 350 has a hardware Encoder and Decoder (for viewing and recording). Alternate: 139 euros
- The 150 has a hardware Encode (for recording in the background). Alternate: 89 euros
- DVD recorder (NEC 3540, 4550?)
