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Ricor PVRs To Hit Russia

Posted by timothy on from the medical-men-horse-lovers-etc. dept.

BlackShirt writes "Mediacenter acts as a digital video recorder, i.e. it enables the viewer to plan his/her future television broadcast recordings. 'Live' broadcasts can also be recorded. Program recordings are stored in the video archive, and the user can playback, delete or unable deleting of recordings (here are some screenshots). I personally like their advertisements more than their product. (Shopping-tv style, wife doesn't allow to watch football, so disapponted husband knocks on his neighbors' door, as they turn their fabulous Ricor TV box from pause to play.)" It looks like this is being marketed to Russian cable companies as an all-in-one portal, since they also include electronic ordering capabilities and "near video on demand"; I wish American PVRs had all these features by default (ethernet, USB, microphone, camera inputs ...)

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  1. Features... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Put Myth TV on a computer with a hardware encoding TV tuner card and you'll have a damn fine PVR.

    1. Re:Features... by fidget42 · · Score: 3, Informative

      If you don't mind spending money, go an try out SageTV. I purhcased the software (about US$60) and have a dedicated PC with two Hauppauge PVR-250 encoder cards installed (and a third on the way). With this system you can have up to four PVR-250s in tha same box, and multiple PCs all slaved together in one big "recorder farm." They have a bundle where you can get the software with a PVR-250 for US$175. Not a bad deal.

      It doesn't require a subscription-based service and works with XMLTV if you don't have coverage for your area (such as overseas or Iowa, as in my case).

      --
      The dogcow says "Moof!"
  2. Inputs by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 2, Informative

    My older ReplayTV has RCA inputs which lets me hook up my digital camera, and it has S-Video inputs that lets me hook up my All-in-Wonder or my camcorder.

  3. Re:build your own by Picass0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Funny you should say that!

  4. Re:build your own by Ella+the+Cat · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use a Pinnacle DC10+. It creates HUGE but beautiful mjpeg files at 768x576 (PAL) using lavrec (mjpegtools), gobbling 8.1 Gbytes/hour(!), but with mencoder I can shrink these files down to manageable DiVX size. Nice thing is, the DC10+ -always- gets video and audio in sync, it does not load the CPU or gobble memory bandwidth (it has hardware compression), and it can playback to the TV. It supports NTSC and PAL. It can't do pause while recording unfortunately but I prefer nice quality recordings to such features so I'm happy. At least it's a different approach for Linux PVRs. There's a catch, diagonal lines interference in some machines (see Pinnacle webboard) but there's an easy fix if you can solder.