The ATI all-in-wonder 128 has a digital vcr feature. After Linux drivers are available, then that would probably be the best way to go.
But you can't get the priace down much, unless you already have some of the hardware. The video card costs $200, plus a Celeron, motherboard, case, memory and big hard drive.
The costs would easily push you up to the $500-$700 range, and you still wouldn't have the convience of a set-top box. No remote control, etc.
Maybe if you combined it with an mp3 player, it would be cost effective enough, but from what I've heard the all-in-wonder takes over the machine while you are using it.
TiVo does collect information, but they claim that anything they release to advertisers will be collective data, i.e. they can't trace it to one specific user. TiVo also plans to use targetted advertising in the future.
ReplayTV really looks like the good guy in this one.
Mike (Not-so-patiently waiting for the prices to go down.)
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I think he means recording the output of his sound card onto cassette tapes, and then playing them in a normal walkman.
Mike
The ATI all-in-wonder 128 has a digital vcr feature. After Linux drivers are available, then that would probably be the best way to go.
But you can't get the priace down much, unless you already have some of the hardware. The video card costs $200, plus a Celeron, motherboard, case, memory and big hard drive.
The costs would easily push you up to the $500-$700 range, and you still wouldn't have the convience of a set-top box. No remote control, etc.
Maybe if you combined it with an mp3 player, it would be cost effective enough, but from what I've heard the all-in-wonder takes over the machine while you are using it.
Mike
Replay doesn't send anything to the server.
TiVo does collect information, but they claim that anything they release to advertisers will be collective data, i.e. they can't trace it to one specific user. TiVo also plans to use targetted advertising in the future.
ReplayTV really looks like the good guy in this one.
Mike
(Not-so-patiently waiting for the prices to go down.)
That's because two kids with baseball bats and knives can't walk into a school and kill 25 people without anyone stopping them.
mike