I wish I had the $1200 or so it would cost to make this. It would allow you to digitally record up to six TV shows at the same time (current Tivos, etc… are limited to one). Now the trick would actually be to find six thing worth recording at the same time (a much more difficult task). Link via the entertaining Hack A Day who also has a link to build your own $200 PVR.
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How coinkydink! BendBroadband will be swapping our old single-tuner PVR for their new, two-tuner model on Tuesday.
Only bummer is, since I don’t have a DVD recorder, what I recorded on the old machine goes away. Oh well, that’s the next upgrade, I’m sure.
And as ANYONE who watches much TV knows, Jake – when there ARE good things on to watch, they are usually, in fact almost ALWAYS on against each other. So 2 tuners are cool;-)
Two tuner I can see being useful, but a six tuner? Overkill, really.
If you have all the HBO, SHOWTIME, CINEMAX, STARS, and whatever else there is, and there was something on all of them at the same time… maybe? i only have 27 cahnnels so i don’t know much about those movie channels.
Thanks for posting this dude. I’m going to get a happauge and start recording my shows instead of downloading them a few days after i miss them.
Dump the windows based beyond TV solution and go with the open sourced Linux based MythTV (which I use) and you’re on the road to trimming the cost. Also, get the pcHDTV tuner, you’ll have an HDTV Home Theater PC on the cheap.
The second link here for the $200 PVR uses the MythTV setup, John.
Just an FYI, there are 2 tuner ones. I have a Pioneer DVR from Time Warner cable and we can record 2 channels at a time, or watch one channel while recording another. Plus, we have 2 tuners on our TV so we can have regular cable going into a VCR and record shows on that, if we really want to. Down side is that we have to rent the box and pay for the service.