I have a media center PC and love it. The online content is pretty cool. You can rent movies and things like that with it as well.
The windows Media center software is included as part of Vista Ultimate. I think it allows for two normal tuners, and one HD tuner. > -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 6:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: I'm cutting the cord....errr...satellite link > > has anyone put together a mythtv box? That sounds pretty damn cool. > I'd be willing to shell out some money to get a box that would really > be a multi-media center like that. > > > On 1/15/07, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >the only catch was that for the > > >rebate you have to sign up for new service with tivo, but it sounds > > >like you plan on that anyways... > > > > There are other options...you can find Tivos on Ebay that have a > lifetime membership on them. With that, you don't need to pay to use it. > Not sure about the current ones, but older Tivos you *could* use as a > standalone recorder and not have to pay for the Tivo membership. You also > can buy stand-alone DVD recorders that basically act like a Tivo. Maybe > not as fancy in terms of features, but still allow you to record TV and > play back later. And there's always a Media PC as well... just all depends > on how cheap you want to go. If I wanted to go pretty cheap, I probably > would try to find an old Tivo with the lifetime subscription on it. But > even that will probably run you a couple hundred dollars....and you never > know how long before it would fail. > > > > --- Mary Jo > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224762 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
