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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Basil</b> <<a href="mailto:robertbasil@robertbasil.com">robertbasil@robertbasil.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">1. Play pause and record TV on my 55' wide screen (Phillips).</blockquote>
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<div>This is what MythTV is all about, you'll find channel surfing limited but otherwise you've got this.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">2. Season pass option to be able to search for and record programs by name /<br>date / keyword / new or rerun.
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<div>Yes, even customize how Mythtv determines reruns</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">3. The ability to record one show while watching another.</blockquote>
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<div>If you get two or more tuner cards no problem</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">4. The ability to burn my recorded shows onto a DVD.</blockquote>
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<div>This isn't flawless yet but can be done</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">5. On screen weather.</blockquote>
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<div>MythWeather Plugin</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">6. On screen RSS feeds.</blockquote>
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<div>Pretty Sure MythNews Plugin does this</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Can your software do the above and be able to come in under $500 for both<br>software and hardware?</blockquote>
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<div>All the software is free :) You may wan to subscribe to LxMSuite for additional features and more convenient program listing subscription but thats about 5$ a month after the first some odd months. Otherwise you can do it the free way. SO basically you have 500$ to build a PC with 2 tuner cards. I'd say you can definatly do that. Grab a PVR-350 and a PVR-250, thorw it in a 100$ barebones system add memory 100$ and a CPU (this varies a lot)(anything over 1Ghz I'd say). You said you have the rest of the hardware. And if you have a cable box with a firewire output you can just use that instead of the PVR-250. You will also need a VGA card to get the system set up for TV-out.
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<div> </div></div>Devan Lippman <<a href="mailto:devan@lippman.net">devan@lippman.net</a>>