The good folks at wired.com are becoming about as tech-savvy as cnet. Maybe this is what happens when you get too big for your britches. The article "Build Your Own PVR, Then Trash It"
sounds as if it was written by somebody at the MPAA and Microsoft, and handed over to wired.
Here are the results of a poll that HDBeat did recently which shows just how people are recording their HDTV. The thing I find interesting is the behind Satellite, Cable, and Windows Media Center, lies Mythtv. I didn't participate in the poll (only 23 mythtv HDTV folks out there did), but my little vote wouldn't have changed the results much.
Link: HDBeat
I upgraded to version 0.19 of MythTV last weekend, and here is my takeaway. The upgrade went very smoothly, I have a frontend running FC3 (apt) and a backend running FC4 (yum), and both went well. I was a bit disappointed that I had to update them simultaneously as once I updated the frontend, it would no longer connect to the backend until I updated it.
The online TV Recorder. You log in, program your show to record, then download the recorded show. This appears to be a community driven site based in Germany, along the same line as Rent My DVR {:target="_blank"}
I'd love to see something like this come to the US, but there would have to be a few questions answered first:
I'm going to have to give this a look. I'd like to do a feature comparison with MythTV, and if I get a chance to download it and give it a spin, I will.
Link via :Engadget
I was over at linux.com{:target="blank"}, and there was an article about building your own Linux Home Media Center. It makes me realize that there is a strong perception that MythTV is hard. And while it can be difficult/challenging, and yes... _hard. It can also be used in a simple way as just a Media Center with no recording (no backend capabilities). I would strongly suggest anybody considering rolling their own media center give the MythTV route a shot first, because it's such a short jump to wanting a full-fledged PVR, and MythTV is up to the task.
Good Luck folks
!! quote "From Engadget:"
D-Link is touting the new DSM-5210R as the first wireless high-def streaming media player with 100GB of storage...
The Clicker is a weekly contribution to Engadget, usually focused on High-Definition television. Much of what he contributes is usually pretty entry-level stuff. In this entry, however, Stephen Speicher has two very good points. First, he suggests, that the networks who want to compete with ABC selling their past episodes on iTunes for $1.99 do so by selling their 'future' episodes for $1.99 instead of just saying "Me Too" and selling their past episodes at a lower price point.
Abstract
Disney offers next-day iTunes downloads of TV shows: "Opening the door to a new revenue stream for television content, the Walt Disney Co. said on Wednesday it will begin offering next-day digital downloads of its biggest ABC prime time hits for $1.99 per episode."
This site just came online recently. It's a completely fascinating concept, and I'm wondering just how legal it is.