Wendy: Building our own PVRs
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Link: http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2005/01/29/building_our_own_pvrs.html
If only I wasn't a broke grad. student...
With just five months left until the broadcast flag, EFF is staging a build-in: Build your own high-definition video recorder that lawfully ignores the broadcast flag.
We're using MythTV, a remarkably full-featured platform that can manage not only live and recorded television, but also music, movies, photos, weather, even VoIP phone calls. Because it's all Free Software, if you don't see a feature you want, you can code it yourself or find a friend who will.