I've been debating on buying the Dragon till I just found this case:

http://www.origenae.com/product_x15e.htm

This looks pretty sweet! It would be nice to be able to say flip though pictures or play music with out having to ever turn on the TV.

Has anyone used of these with KnoppMyth (or even MythTV in general)? What other cases with built in LCD's are known to work good as a MythTV box?

Dunno, but it sure looks prety. If you notice, on the right hand side there are drivers they provide for linux. Sooooo, it should be possible.
Buy... try... Good luck. (But listen to your significant other before you splash the cash. I won't be held responsible!)
But if you get it to work, you'd make alot of people more than a little envious.

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Yeah... I see those linux drivers.... man.... that would look sweet in my entertainment system. It's not the $500 just for that case that has me worried though... it's the *trying* and *hoping* for $500 it *might* work after a month of re-installs that has me worried most of all. I hate being the first on the block with the half-working equipment. lol

.... so close to ordering this thing. I guess mostly I'm wondering if there is any other cases out there i've missed that I might want to look at before I toss down the money on this... can it get much better?

We need (or is there already) a photo gallery of MythTV cases. I really want it to intergate in with my DVD player, Xbox and such. Not looking like it should be under my desk in the office collecting dust.

Here's my order list if anyone wants to comment:

OrigenAE X15e HTPC Case w/TFT Touchscreen and IR Module, Black
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS EN6200TC 512/TD/256M Geforce 6200TC 256M (Effective memory 512M) GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Low Profile Video Card
Hauppauge 980 ( WinTV-PVR-250 ) PCI Interface Personal Video Recorder
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory
PLEXTOR 18X DVD±R DVD Burner
ZALMAN CNPS7000B-ALCU 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan
Nexus NX-4090 400W PSU
2x Maxtor 300GB L01S300 16MB Buffer Serial ATA (SATA) *Sale right now for $80 each!
Zalman ZM-NB47J Northbridge Chipset Cooler

It's a bit of an overkill I'm sure, but I have big dreams for this system, and the price isn't all that bad for what I think I'll have in the end.

I plan to boot off a 4gb USB flash drive (or some kinda media flash card) for the primary system drive, using KnoppMyth. The 2x 300GB drives will be used only as media storage in a RAID 1 stripe. I figure I can afford to loose anything on the HD this way if they do fail, anything that I want to keep perm will be offloaded to DVD or later to a file server in a back room.

I went with the PVR-250 just to take the load off the CPU during recording. I have another PVR-350 that I may toss in here or build another front end around.

I'm a bit worried about heat in this thing. I tried to keep to the Dragon specs in most places hoping that my heat levels would be the same. The case fans look big enough to move air around and out of the system, but would this be enough?

The only thing I'm not sure about yet is how I'm going to control the LCD screen on the front of the case. If I use just a generic video card to send a second screen to it, can MythTV display some stuff on one screen, and TV/Video output on the other? I have an HD TV so I'll be using the HDMI port of the video card (kept TV-out in case I ever hook it up to another system).

I think I can just mirror the TV out as a last resort, does anyone know if you can plug an SVGA and an HDMI cable in at the same time, and have them both output? I say this is the worst case because the LCD will always be playing what's on the TV, could get annoying.

bobjoe: any progress with this since your last post in August? I too am interested in this case but have the same questions regarding getting the video to correctly work with the built-in display and my primary display (rear projection television). Any additional thoughts, comments, or experiences would be greatly appreciated by you or anyone else.