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Michael Hunt wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.</pre>
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Since you've already bypassed copyright issues...<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.</pre>
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... why not ignore broadcasting rights too?<br>
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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?<br>
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<pre wrap="">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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