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Home-Grown TiVo Stories?
PolyDwarf writes "I'm in the process of figuring out how I'm going to build a homegrown TiVo machine (i.e. a computer sitting next to or in my home electronics stack).
My question for is "What's worked best for you?" Most solutions I've researched are great if you have regular cable. However, satellite systems and digital cable boxes seem to present a special challenge, in that the software on the PC needs to know about an IR connector that is then hooked up to the front of the digital cable/satellite box.
Who has done a solution like what I'm researching? What cases/processors/memory/TV Card/IR transceiver/OS/software/etc worked out for you? Did the end result justify the pain and hassle?"
What happened to the days of using a VCR? Yes its not cool or geeky or even the best quality but it certainly suffices for tape delaying a show. Plus a good VCR costs like $60 nowadays with tapes to be had for under a buck. Cheap and a tried a true technology(plus no monthly fee!).
1) Iraq didn't attack us. 2) Iraq doesn't have WMD. 3) Are we also going to "free" Iran, Syria, Egypt, SA, etc?
You're all burned up about the fact that it's working, aren't you? Syria closed their border with Iraq yesterday. Support for Hezbollah and Hamas is eroding in the republic.
If things keep up, we won't have to liberate those other countries. They're going to liberate themselves.
> My question for is "What's worked best for you?"
I couldn't be happier with my solution.
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Why not just buy a TiVo with DirecTV? There's no point in reinventing the wheel, especially if it comes in a nice AV-rack-sized box.
Michael C. Hollinger
C'mon, what is it that terrorists have understood for the past 20 years of American history? You strike the US, they do nothing. Unfortunately, OBL got a bit too cocky and hit a bit too close to home. The US struck back. No one over there expected that. Believe me, they are quaking over there. Look at Syria. They now want nothing to do with what has been going on in Iraq. They know it's in their best interest to distance themselves politically from the goings on in Iraq, so they're coming to the table. It's a big step for them to do so, because it shows to the other Arab nations their "weakness." But it will be just what the Doctor ordered to keep those nations in line.
What terrorists and terrorist backers understand is not "weapons inspectors" and strokings by the UN, but force, applied in kind and with greater intensity than it was applied to you. They know that we won't be able to be controlled by the likes of France, Russia, Germany, and other countries willing to risk regional stability and global propagation of terrorism for the almighty dollar.
and if the US decides to go after fabled WMDs in Iran and Syria
We know that WMDs had been produced for years under the nose of the UN; we have in custody the scientists who made the stuff. We know that it was both shipped to Syria, and also destroyed just days before the war started. When would have been the correct time to act? When Detroit or San Francisco or Chicago was hit with a Ricin attack and another 3K worth of Americans died? It's the same old argument: they did nothing to us.
Here's a suggestion: All you State Troopers out there, just stop pulling over drunk drivers. I mean, they haven't done anything yet, right? They haven't killed anyone yet, right? Let's just wait until they do, and then we can go after them. Right? In order to maintain a safe, free society, we protect and defend the Constitution and our way of life against all enemies, foreign or domestic. "He hasn't killed me yet" is not an excuse for inaction when you know that your inaction will lead to more attacks, more deaths, and the destabilzation of a region which is vital to world economic health. With the state of the world economy, no one can afford that.
[now stepping down from my soapbox]
Oh, and by the way, you can get great mini-ITX cases at cyberguys.com.
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