Home-Grown TiVo Stories? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Monday April 21, 2003 @10:44AM from the cheap-and-perfect-preferred dept.

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?"

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Re:Buy a Tivo by p7 · 2003-04-21 12:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

My personal Tivo replacement cost me a total of $70 and no monthly fees. I got a WinTV PCI for $20 and Snapstream for $50. Already have a computer or two sitting around that can handle it. No monthly fees or bulk payment. Even if I paid myself $100 an hour I would still have come out ahead with my current system.