Your PC into Tivo/Better!

[poo]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/compute...5155-1,00.html

Klaus Schmidinger runs a small software company about an hour from Munich. He and 90-odd of his closest friends on the Net have spent thousands of hours—"Do you ever sleep?" asks one e-mail correspondent—developing open-source software, and a little bit of hardware, to let any Linux box record and play back digital TV signals (for an overview and the download, go to www.cadsoft.de/vdr).

The PVR Starter Kit

wait for your cable company to install one. Or buy software from Snapstream or Showshifter or one of the other companies that's sprung up to let you convert your new $1,000 PC into a good imitation of a $200 VCR. But where would be the fun in that?

And I pay 0$ a month

you will need this btw

http://akool.bei.t-online.de/vdr/

vdr-analogTV

[mrphil]

Apart from the fact that the interface for that program isnt as polished, how is this any different from SS?

[poo]

Originally posted by mrphil
Apart from the fact that the interface for that program isnt as polished, how is this any different from SS?

did you even look @ the web page and the app

[V_D_O]

Apart from the fact that the interface for that program isnt as polished, how is this any different from SS?

Two things:
1) No web interface/streaming
2) Support for DVB cards

[mrphil]

Originally posted by poo


did you even look @ the web page and the app

Sorry, I missed out the quote:

wait for your cable company to install one. Or buy software from Snapstream or Showshifter or one of the other companies that's sprung up to let you convert your new $1,000 PC into a good imitation of a $200 VCR. But where would be the fun in that?

What I was getting at when I said how is this any different is the quoted $1000 price tag which apparently applies to Snapstream and Showshifter, but seemingly doesnt apply to their software. Most people who use these applications already have the hardware lying around unused, and even if you had to buy new - $1000? Maybe 10 years ago. Id say its more like $500 at the most now to get a decent PC.