On Friday 30 May 2003 19:09, Tom Diehl wrote: > There was a posting on /. sometime this week talking about this. The > general consensus seem to be that it ended up being more expensive to build > one of these yourself. It got me thinking about it also though. I wonder > what it would cost to build one if you had to buy all of the hardware. > > IMO even if it was a little more expensive it would still be worth it to > not have people mucking with my hardware. If I wanna skip commercials then > I put software in to skip commercials. At least until it is illegal to > program your own hardware. :-( Well, another added bonus is that since it can be a full Linux base, then the system can handle more household duties than just a PVR system. It can run your DNS/DHCP/fileserver/firewall etc.... Much more features than a Tivo (; I'm seriously going to bring this up to my company and see if we can't launch a test market. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
