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Posted by Jim on 06/20/06 16:23
Jim wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> On 2006-06-20, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Black Locust wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> VHS took much longer to kill off then it really should have.
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh? Show me an alternative for recording, say, 8 hours of video, that
>>> costs anywhere near the $100 of a SVHS machine.
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>> Tivos are that cheap now.
>>
>
> but can you play Doom on a TiVo?
>
> I'm an ubergeek. I like my expensive kit. Which is why I built my own
> DVR over three years ago, using an AMD Athlon XP2400+, a Gig of RAM and
> an 80GB HDD. Throw in a WinTV PCI card, and it's ready to rip. Nice case
> on it, DVD burner, and I got me a £500 (then cost) DVR that I could do
> everything else on as well. These days, video
> capture/editing/transcoding is all that box does. I got bigger, better
> and faster boxen to do my other stuff on. So many boxen now, in fact,
> that I've got a storage /cluster/ (four machines), two workstations I
> use myself, the kids have a laptop each, the wife has her Mac laptop,
> and I got on top of all that, my plethora of portable gadgetry, among
> which half a dozen laptops and subnotes, two iPaq PDAs (one of which has
> GPS) (which I'm looking into installing Linux on), and two or three
> tablet PCs.
>
addendum: getting back on topic, I bet I could get a machine specced the
same as my DVR for something close to £140 or even lower these days -
assuming I could still lay my paws on a Matsonic 8157E board and an
XP2400+ processor...
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