PC-PVR, How To Roll Your Own and Beat Big Brother
The G-Spot (tm) podCasts by Francis Vale give you the down and dirty on the sweetest gear that will get you off and smiling in no time. In this podCast, "PVR, Roll Your Own and Beat Big Brother", he provides you a complete how-to on building your own PC-based DVR that outdoes a TiVo and doesn't cost you a dime in monthly subscription fees, or let big brother watch you while you are watching TV. This is the URL for subscribing to the RSS/podCast feed, https://vxm.com/G_Spot_pvr.xml To access the mp3 broadcast file directly, click here.
Here is the product list used to build this PC/DVR system.
CPU: AMD Athlon 3800+ Compare prices
RAM: Corsair XMS Compare Prices
Motherboard: MSI K8T Neo2 series, Socket 939 Compare Prices
Disc Drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200 series Compare Prices
PC Case: Antec Sonata II tower, Performance One P160 tower, or Performance TX1050B tower See Amazon
PCI TV Cards: Compare Prices
PVR Software Downloads (all these products come with a free trial period)
1. Beyond TV3
2. Sage TV
3. Showshifter
21st, The VXM Network, https://vxm.com