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Building A Low-Budget TiVo Substitute?

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-my-anything-box dept.

thepuma writes "Since I'm cheap, and don't want to pay monthly fees to Tivo, I am researching building my own low-budget Personal Video Recorder and player. Free software options include Freevo and MythTV. Hardware options are the main cost factor. How would you go about building the perfect low-budget PVR?" We've looked at similar questions before, but the guts of such a system (both hardware and software) have been improving -- MythTV, for instance, now supports Hauppauge's PVR-350 card. How would you build a system like this now?

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  1. TeeVee schmeevee by Zombierator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd give up the freaking tube--it wastes precious game-playing hours.

  2. Re:Sage TV by Neop2Lemus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Curosity killed the cat once for me, no wait, a second time too, but that one was innocently labelled and I'd seen it before anyways.

    But not this time....

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  3. Re:Sage TV by senor_burt · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Aigh!
    I wouldn't have clicked the link if you hadn't mentioned it... now I want eyeball soap!

    I think it's like the whole "Man, that tastes awful, wanna try some?" school of thought...

  4. And I'm at WORK! by spoco2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dear god! I unsuspectingly clicked on that link too, expecting some funny thing about google... but jeeeeesus! I've never closed a window faster in my life (computer based window, I'm sure I've been pretty fast on the house window closing in the past)... god that's wrong.

    1. Re:And I'm at WORK! by microbob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Then get to work and quit farking around on slashdot :>)

      M.B. - working from home

  5. That is EXTREMELY sick, but... by Hell+O'World · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have to admit that was a clever way to avoid the Slashdot link marking. We'll all have to be more careful now.

  6. Re:Sage TV by spinlocked · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > Needle Nardle Noo

    Would you like a gorilla?

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  7. Re:Sage TV by JacobO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now if you hadn't mentioned it, I would never have become curious. What's even scarier than the picture linked is that I don't feel physically ill like I ought to having seen it. No wait, here it comes...

  8. Re:Sage TV by Neop2Lemus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Mr Greenslade - button up your kilt!

    :-)

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    Needle Nardle Noo
  9. Re:Sage TV by spinlocked · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You with the zink cardigan, are you English?

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  10. Re:Sage TV by Neop2Lemus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Not really, born there, grew up here:Canada.

    You?

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    Needle Nardle Noo