Posted by Bob on 01/15/02 11:57

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:59:45 -0700, "Bill's News"
<BillsNews@pcmagic.net> wrote:

>Affordable for whom? The Hauppauge 500 PCI for MCE fits the bill at
>the low end of current prices. I've read that some other cards can be
>installed in multiples.

I am looking for a DVDR. I would rather not have to build my own PVR
at this time, certainly not with Windows. I have been using NT (NT4
and NT5, aka Win2K) for 10 years now and I am still chasing down bugs.

> There are quite a few stand alone devices
>listed at the site referenced, but dual tuner is not yet an option on
>the page, so I'll leave that for others to wade through.

I did some wading and did not see any. I was hoping you had another
site in mind.

> Rather than
>Ethernet, which is not bad per se, I prefer USB2 NTFS formatted hard
>drives to be supported. Hot-swapping these units places all of your
>recordings onto the PC with absolutely no overhead on either the PC or
>the recorder. I recently picked up a 600 gB LaCie USB2 for something
>like US$260. One drawback of this unit though is that it doesn't idle
>with disuse as some others do.

Ethernet is so much better in a setting where there are multiple
computers. Imagine the classic family of 4 with 4 different sets of
tastes in entertainment. Fill the hard drive with all sorts of content
and let each person view it on their own computer in their own room.

But I do like the idea of USB memory. I will include that on my
wishlist.

>Maybe the folks at videohelp will add the multi-tuner checkbox to the
>search in the future.

First they need to add one for hard drives.


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