Forget TiVo and ReplayTV. If you want a really super-duper digital video recorder, you have to build your own.
All you need is knowledge of Linux, plenty of cash for hardware and, if anything goes wrong, hundreds of hours to troubleshoot the device.
Thanks to several open-source projects, you can build your own digital video recorder that will blow boxes from TiVo and ReplayTV right off the shelf.
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"I always wanted to buy a TiVo, but I thought it would be pretty cool to build my own," said Isaac Richards, who runs
MythTV, one of the most complete home-brew DVR projects. "Trouble is, I definitely don't watch as much TV as I did before I started this project. It's more fun to work on it than it is to watch TV."
Richards, a 25-year-old programmer from Cleveland, launched the MythTV project a year ago with the idea of building a simple, highly configurable DVR.
