Posted by Jim on 06/20/06 16:20

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.
>
>
> 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.

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When all else fails...
Use a hammer.

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Some people are like Slinkies
They serve no particular purpose
But they bring a smile to your face
When you push them down the stairs.

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