[plug] Myth TV v's PVR & DVD Recorder

[Jonathan Young]

Michael Hunt wrote:

>Hiya all,
>
>While looking at items for the Christmas stocking my wife floated the
>idea of purchasing a DVD recorder in order to enable her to send copies
>of 'Home and Away' to her sister-in-law who will soon be living in a
>remote party of PNG.
>
Since you've already bypassed copyright issues...

>I started talking to her about the benefits of
>PVR's over DVD Recorders and wondered if I might be able to float the
>idea of a 'myth tv' come media centre type system. The topfield pvr box
>looks very nice but I don't think its feature set is going to do what I
>want. (I want to dump the footage to DVD or VCD for smaller postage
>size.
>
... why not ignore broadcasting rights too?

OK, ignoring my sarcastic disclaimer for a second, is there any change 
that she will have Internet access while she is over there and if so, 
how about uploading and PRIVATELY allowing downloading / viewing of the 
recorded episodes, with minimal delay, from your own server?

>Plus the topfield only has usb for pulling footage off of the
>device when I have a perfectly good wired network).
>
>Anyhow, I know a couple of people here have played with mythtv so I was
>wondering what kind of spec box you would put together (I'm particularly
>interested in quiet cases plus a digital tv card known to work with myth
>tv).
>
>Hope someone out there might be able to help.
>
>Michael Hunt
>
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