Convergence will exist when all signals(TV, radio, etc.) are digital. Who cares if you have some cheapo PC with all this media support, when the quality of the signals, especially TV and radio, are not worth compressing to begin with. Garbage in, garbage out.
Unified interface: good, but really not necessary until signal convergence happens.
Buy an UltimateTV or a TiVo, a DVD player, and save the unified stuff for when all audio is digitally delivered.
Your time would better be spent working on an open-source TiVo and better TV tuner support. (the tuner thing might be solved by using that obsolete VCR and controlling it via IrMan or something.)
Just my 1/50th of a dollar.
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Convergence will exist when all signals(TV, radio, etc.) are digital. Who cares if you have some cheapo PC with all this media support, when the quality of the signals, especially TV and radio, are not worth compressing to begin with. Garbage in, garbage out. Unified interface: good, but really not necessary until signal convergence happens. Buy an UltimateTV or a TiVo, a DVD player, and save the unified stuff for when all audio is digitally delivered. Your time would better be spent working on an open-source TiVo and better TV tuner support. (the tuner thing might be solved by using that obsolete VCR and controlling it via IrMan or something.) Just my 1/50th of a dollar.