NewsForge: MythTV: Easy Personal Video Recording with Linux

“A few months ago, I started looking for an alternative to
Windows Media Center Edition 2005, a personal video recorder (PVR)
or digital video recorder (DVR) system. While other complete
hardware/software combos, such as the popular TiVo, solve many of
the headaches of having to build your own system and find out which
hardware works and which doesn’t, they also lack a level of
customization and user freedom; with TiVo, for instance, you have
join one of the company’s monthly subscription plans. I decided to
build my own system using open source software and carefully picked
hardware. This proved to be much easier than I expected, thanks to
MythTV…”

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