- Dec 23, 2002
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I've been thinking about getting DVR from my local Time Warner cable company here, but a couple days ago I read an article about using your PC to record/watch cable TV as opposed to old fashioned VHS and such. Plus, I think that there is a way to burn to DVD anything that you really want to save and/or share with friends.
So I looked over on Newegg and saw that for around $70 - $80 you can get a nice PCI card with a remote control. Furthermore, I have an older PC that is about to be retired and freshly nuked. So I was thinking that maybe I could scrape together the cash and give this a shot.
My question to you guys is, do you know how fast a system has to be to handle DVR? I'm looking at using an old AthlonXP 1400 on a good ol' A7N8X motherboard. I've got 80GB of hard drive to work with, but they are getting nice and cheap now, I see that a fast 200 GB or so can be had for around $70 or so should I get tight on space.
Also, do you guys know how much storage space DVR'd TV shows take up? Is Windows Media Center really the best OS to use?
Depending on how much the good peoples at Time Warner charge per month to use a DVR, a PCI DVR card could pay for itself pretty quickly. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff?
Thanks for humoring me!
:beer:
So I looked over on Newegg and saw that for around $70 - $80 you can get a nice PCI card with a remote control. Furthermore, I have an older PC that is about to be retired and freshly nuked. So I was thinking that maybe I could scrape together the cash and give this a shot.
My question to you guys is, do you know how fast a system has to be to handle DVR? I'm looking at using an old AthlonXP 1400 on a good ol' A7N8X motherboard. I've got 80GB of hard drive to work with, but they are getting nice and cheap now, I see that a fast 200 GB or so can be had for around $70 or so should I get tight on space.
Also, do you guys know how much storage space DVR'd TV shows take up? Is Windows Media Center really the best OS to use?
Depending on how much the good peoples at Time Warner charge per month to use a DVR, a PCI DVR card could pay for itself pretty quickly. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff?
Thanks for humoring me!
:beer: