>From: David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com> >Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:38:43 -0500 >Subject: Accessible Personal Digital Video Recorder??? >To: gui-talk@NFBnet.org (Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List) > > > >Accessible Personal Video Recorder > >From: Fernando H. Botelho > >You may have seen advertisements for personal video recorders like Replay TV >and Tivo. They are essentially desktop computers disguised as VCRs. The >major difference between PVR machines and a VCR is that Personal Video >Recorders record on a computer hard disk instead of a video tape and allow >you much more flexibility in terms of scheduling what shows you want to >record and so forth. >They also allow for easy fast forwarding through advertisements and allow >usually instant playback whenever you miss a joke or want to see something >again on live TV. > >Any way, this is all wonderful, but I had no hopes of using one of these >until 5 or 6 years from now, when they become obsolete enough for >manufacturers to even think about making them accessible. > >This is not to complain, this is just to share with you the URL of a site >that explains how to make a Linux computer become your own Personal Video >Recorder, one which you can access all features through for example, a >telnet session... Your significant other is not left out, he or she can >access the features with a conventional remote control. > >The URL is: >http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/index.htm > >If any readers will be putting one of these together, feel free to get in >touch with me. I will start researching how I can put one together this >weekend. > >Fernando > >He is on the below email list if you are interested. > > >VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. >To join or leave the list, send a message to >listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. In the body of the message, simply type >"subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. >VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at >http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html > > >-- >This mailing list is sponsored by the National Federation of the Blind, NFB. >To view or search an archive of messages for this list, go to: http://www.nfbnet.org >For more information about the NFB, please call (410) 659-9314, point your >internet browser to http://www.nfb.org or Telnet to nfbnet.org.