Update from 2024: This page is extremely old and while MythTV and most of the technology might work its very hard to “record” any broadcasts today. In the world of stream PVR technology is largely irrelevant.
My PVR Today
I’ve been interested in the PVR ( personal video recorder ) since I was young and my parents first VCR kept eating my Transformers recordings. I built my first PVR almost 8 years ago using an old TV tuner, some early Linux drivers and a cron system to record tv shows.
Since then I’ve built several PVR systems using MythTV and it was my platform of choice for almost 5 years. Most of my experience was with the Fedora Core platform and the Hauppauge PVR cards.
I’ve since switched to the Roger’s Scientific Atlantic Explorer 8000 PVR. It’s pre-built and the interface is horrible but it does work well with the Roger’s digital cable guide.
I’m also using a “Hacked” AppleTV for most of my Podcast and digital format viewing now. It does 720p ( which is my TV’s max ) and with XBMC ( Xbox Media Center ) is a very good media platform.
MythTV
- MythTV Offical Webpage
- My MythTV Presentation at the GTALUG
- Fedora Myth(TV)ology – Jarod Wilson’s How-to
- MythTV Frontend for MacOs
- Chris Petersen’s MythWeb and Nuvexport Site
- IR BLASTER HOWTO for LIRC with MYTHTV By Robert Wamble
- MythTV on Suse Linux
- MythTV and Gentoo
- MythTV Debian How To
- The PVR Guides
- Mythtv.info
Scientific Atlanta’s Explorer 8000
- Scientific Atlanta’s Official Explorer 8000 Webpage
- Comcast DVR (Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000) review
- Scientific Atlanta DVR Not So Hot
- Scientific Atlantic 8000 Vs. ReplayTV 4000
Tivo
Others
- ReplayTV’s Official Webpage
- Media Portal
- Freevo
- PVR Market Growth Forecast
- GB-PVR
- Build your own PVR
- Home Media Center – D1
- Telly – Interactive TV