The Silent PVR

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.hushtechnologies.net/' target='_blank'>http://www.hushtechnologies.net/</a><br /><br /></div>"Swift, sexy and silent, the new HUSH™ ATX proves that silent PCs now mean business. Providing increased flexibility and greater choice for multimedia, gaming, design, medical, media, audio, libraries, HTPC, and the home, the ATX benefits from the advantages of our unique heat dissipation technology for the CPU, Northbridge and GPU. At last there is a silent solution for Intel© Pentium© 4, Celeron and AMD Athlon XP© or Duron© CPUs.<br /><br />The HUSH™ ATX Media PVR in combination with Hush-ShowShifter™ becomes the ultimate Home Media Center in their living room. Absolutely silent and swift, it is perfectly equipped for your audio and video home entertainment. "<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/hush.jpg" /><br /><br />You can get this totally silent DVR with up to 2GB of RAM and a 200GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and a 2.8GHz processor. The graphics card on board is the rock solid ATI Radeon 9800SE. Of course, what also interested me on this site is the HUSH™ Mini-ITX and the HUSH™ AVX Music Server. The looks of this PC/PVR are totally impressive and pricing is not bad at all given the form factor and the fact that it is silent makes it all the more attractive.

[Mojo Jojo]

Now that is nice... I was all excited about the windows media center till I saw one at a friends house. Nice surround sound, TV, good setup... but while watching the movie I some how got focused on the sound of the fans and was disappointed. A noise free solution sounds great! Let me enjoy the show not cursing the player.

[Jason Dunn]

HP makes MCEs that are "real computers" and likely fairly noisy to boot, whereas Gateway's MCE is more of a stereo component-style device. Is the Gateway one noisy?

[James Fee]

I like that its available in black. Most new gear in the last few years has been silver, but I still have black. My HD-DVD samsung player is the wrong color for everything, but what am I to do. :p

Anyway, I'm wondering if those fins on the side are for decoration or actually functional. Would have liked a MCE option, but maybe in the future.

Its almost the device I've been looking for, but about $500 too much for my taste.

[JTWise]

HP makes MCEs that are "real computers" and likely fairly noisy to boot, whereas Gateway's MCE is more of a stereo component-style device. Is the Gateway one noisy?

I am very curious about this myself. Ed - are you out there? I am seriously considering going the Media Center route and was curious about the noise factor. I have considered the Gateway but haven't really seen any comments on noise. Also, has anyone with an HP changed out the power supply for something that is more quiet? PCmall has some refurb HP units for under $700 right now.

This unit is sweet but a little steep for my budget right now.