If I record SD content and use MythTV to scale and deinterlace it to 720p or 1080p (not sure which I'll use yet, I'm building a 720p LCD projector that will be extremely bright and a 1080p CRT projector that will be kinda dim, and I'm not yet sure which I'll use, although I think it'll probably the CRT, but I haven't seen either of them yet; they'll both have DVI input) will the video be saved as HD and take up more space, or will it he saved as SD and just be played on the screen as HD? Also, is MythTV good at scaling SD video to HD? Does it look at all close to being from an HD source?
Is there any kind of component (or composite, although we all know that component is better) to firewire adapter I could get? Does firewire have any lag? The reason I'm asking is that I plan on somehow upscaling my PS2 and the Wii that I'm getting soon to HD somehow. If that wouldn't work, then is the Adaptec Gamebridge compatible with MythTV? Or would I be able to just use the Gamebridge with my Windows laptop and dScaler, then use the VGA output on my laptop to go to the projector. Is there a program I could use to send video out of the firewire port on my laptop to go to my Mythbox to scale and deinterlace? Or is there a VGA to firewire adapter I could get, to output from my laptop to my Mythbox, if dScaler doesn't work with the Gamebridge? Or, would I be able to use the composite inputs on a PVR-350 (I'm getting two for a total of a little over $112, including shipping and handling)? Would there be any lag? (By the way, every single time I mention the Gamebridge on the MythTV forum, nobody ever responds.)
http://www.nextdaypc.com/main/products/ ... =ND0130014 Is that the regular version of the PVR-350, or a different version; the box looks different than other PVR-350 boxes do?
Is a Celeron D 356 (3.33 GHz; socket 775) a good processor for a Mythbox that will have one firewire-in from an HD STB, 2 PVR-350s, a wireless-G frontend, scale all content to HD (by the way, my HD and DVI-out Nvidia video card only has 64 MB, but it was extremely cheap; I got it for about $20 on eBay, but I could have gotten it for about $15; I had the same item listed by two different sellers at different prices in my watch list, and I decided to buy the cheaper one, but I accidentally clicked But It Now for the more expensive one, and I didn't notice I had purchased the wrong one until after I already paid with PayPal), transcode all video to MPEG-4 (most likely while I'm sleeping, or on the fly if it's fast enough), use a USB webcam as a surveillance camera (either with Plutohome as the OS, or with Motion), and possibly be used to upscale non-HD video games to HD (as mentioned in the previous paragraph)? I know that Celerons are inferior to Pentiums, but I'm hoping this one will be fast enough to do everything I want it to do.
Is there any way I can use a 16:9 theme with a 4:3 screen, but have it have black bars on top and on the bottom, instead of stretching out to 4:3? I got the computer monitors for my projectors for extremely cheap ($61.85 for the CRT and $41.50 for the LCD; the LCD didn't have a working backlight, which doesn't matter anyways, since I'm taking it apart and using a 5000 lumen halogen bulb that has a 2000 hour average life and 4000k color temperature that I'm getting 24 of for $0.99 each as the backlight anyways), but they're 4:3, unfortunately (I might be able to adjust the vertical measurement and make them 16:9 myself, but they're still coming in the mail, so I can't test that yet, so I'll need to be able to do this if I can't, as I plan to project the part I need onto the 16:9 projector screen I'm going to get, and leave the black bars on the wall or wherever.)