A brought a PC home from work a few months ago that I planned on using as a MythTV frontend. I tried installing Mythbuntu on it because I wanted to see how different it was from MythDora but Mythbuntu didn’t seem to like the onboard video nor the add-in card I had. I loaded MythDora onto the hard drive successfully. After I built the MythTV backend, I had thought about building a frontend to go with it. When I got the PC from work, I anticipated turning it into a frontend that could be connected to the main TV in the house. After I was forced to reinstall MythTV onto a new hard drive in the backend, I started looking into getting the frontend up and running. I finally got the frontend to see the database on the backend. After playing around with the hostname settings, I am now able to get the video to stream over the network so I can watch recordings and live TV.
I also just found an app that’ll allow me to use my eMac as a MythTV frontend.

Eventually, I would like to replace this frontend with an HTPC that becomes part of my home entertainment center and maybe build a few others for other rooms in the house. I’d also like to increase the storage on the backend to a couple of terabytes so that I can store all my TV recordings, music, and photos, along with ripping my entire DVD collection so I can watch any movie from anywhere in the house.