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Turning the PC into a Digital Video Recorder
gearfix2 writes "The NYTimes ran this story in today's paper about how to turn the PC into a personal video recorder (a la TiVo)... It's got pretty thorough coverage of PC-based hardware with the conclusion "the TiVo outshines the PC-based systems by being easier to use and by offering more built-in intelligence." Conspicuously absent are El Gato's EyeTV for the mac and SnapStream's Personal Video Station... Anyways, the real question is whether PC PVR will *ever* get there. No one does it quite right yet..."
It does look like good software that's worth the $50 price tag. Gotta love this recommendation of theirs, though:
Recommendations and Comparisons
1. Never ShowShift with a capture size larger than 320x240. Recording above this limit is possible but requires a powerful computer with a large hard disk size. You have been warned!
320x240...yeah, right. Obviously this suggestion is geared toward nontechie grandmothers running ancient store-bought "computators".