Hi,

You may have seen advertisements for personal video recorders like Replay TV
and Tivo. They are essentially desktop computers disguised as VCRs. The
major difference between PVR machines and a VCR is that Personal Video
Recorders record on a computer hard disk instead of a video tape and allow
you much more flexibility in terms of scheduling what shows you want to
record and so forth.
They also allow for easy fast forwarding through advertisements and allow
usually instant playback whenever you miss a joke or want to see something
again on live TV.

Any way, this is all wonderful, but I had no hopes of using one of these
until 5 or 6 years from now, when they become obsolete enough for
manufacturers to even think about making them accessible.

This is not to complain, this is just to share with you the URL of a site
that explains how to make a Linux computer become your own Personal Video
Recorder, one which you can access all features through for example, a
telnet session... Your significant other is not left out, he or she can
access the features with a conventional remote control.

The URL is:
http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/index.htm

If any readers will be putting one of these together, feel free to get in
touch with me. I will start researching how I can put one together this
weekend.

Fernando


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