Building A Low-Budget TiVo Substitute?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 10, 2003 @08:31AM 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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Re:Sage TV by senor_burt · 2003-12-10 10:14 · 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...
And I'm at WORK! by spoco2 · 2003-12-10 10:17 · 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.