LinuxPlanet: Tux on the Telly: An Open DVR Product

“Digital video recorders are the big new toy for 2003, at least
in US homes. These nifty gadgets fit a nice niche for people who
are too busy to actually watch TV when they want to and are also
unable to (a) actually program their VCRs or (b) they want to tape
far more television than a measly six-hour videotape can hold. The
question of whether they might be watching too much television
seems beside the point.

“Love them or not, DVRs are actually opening up a much larger
arena: computer-controlled entertainment centers that can do a lot
more than just record shows to a hard drive. This is the territory
that Interact-TV’s Telly MC1000 is trying to move into–territory
that the company hopes to chart with the help of open source
development…”

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