Whole home setup (England)

[jonmjones]

Hi

It's been a while since I was on here. Years in fact! I used to run Vista MCE then go suckered into getting Sky+ HD and eventually retired my HTPC.

I've since moved house and refurbing and am looking to set up a windows based HTPC/TV server solution which can provide access to my music (currently all iTunes), photos (currently all iPhoto), movie collection (Apple TV and ISO formats), & most importantly live HD TV/DVR for every TV screen in the house. In an ideal world, I'd like to incorporate CCTV & door entry too.

The kids have Xbox's and I used to use them as media extenders before, which worked great.

There's potentially 6 TV's to power. I have 2 satellite dishes for Sky, so potentially 8 satellite feeds, plus a decent terrestrial aerial. Each TV has a close gigabit Ethernet cable & coax.

If money was not an object, what would be your solution to this? I'd prefer to get something decent from day one than wishing i'd done it differently down the line.

I am comfortable building computers, so off-the-shelf isn't necessary.

[milli260876]

I suppose that depends if you're planning on keeping $ky...?

[milli260876]

Also dependant upon your content being copy protected.
Which I'd guess it is as you appear to mainly use idevices ...

[jonmjones]

Hi

I plan to get rid of Sky and all my video content is not copy protected. Majority of music is also not protected.

Cheers

[milli260876]

In which case i suggest you look here...
http://mediabrowser3.com/community/
Your server can feed a multitude of clients home or away. Live tv has just been implemented on Roku and the rest of the clients will soon follow.