I kept wanting to build my own MythTV box because I didn't want to pay for a subscription and found out that equipment for a new system would run me about $500. I found an unadvertised deal at Best Buy. At Best Buy, about a week ago, I bought a Toshiba DVD player with Tivo built in (which uses Linux kernel with proprietary drivers) for $399 with a 10% discount and lifetime subscription to Tivo's Basic Service. This came with the 80 gig hard drive. I just plugged the unit in and had it dial Tivo. Be aware that the basic service limits a lot of features that MythTV will give you. Jeff Rasmussen -----Original Message----- From: david.blevins at visi.com [mailto:david.blevins at visi.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 8:44 PM To: TCLUG Subject: [TCLUG] MythTV, pleasant or pain? Anyone have any experience with MythTV? Likes/dislikes? Any other solutions you like better? I'm primarily interested in building collections of shows to burn to dvd later. Just purchased an ATI AIW 9000 Pro, which I'd have to return as they are not supported. The program seems to be slicker than snot, but would love some user feedback before I start tearing my system appart and purchasing new hardware specifically for this purpose. -- David Blevins _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list