On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 03:11 -0500, Maverick wrote: > My girlfriend thought I was crazy for spending over $600, because, I > quote "could have got a new Tivo to replace my old ReplayTV for less, > including the lifetime subscription". > > Once I showed her the automatic commercial skip on her favorite movies > and all the friends episodes it can record, she said "Wow this thing > it cool!" > > Now I can see I'll need another hard drive and tuner to record and > store everything she manages to schedule! > > Clearly coolness factor makes up for a couple hundred bucks!! :)
"You're crazy" and "You're crazy, there's no way you're going
to spend that much money on a Tivo!" is the difference between
"girlfriend" and "wife". ;)
Here's the latest parts list:
Antec Aria case $100
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 170
Streamzap PC Remote 27
MSI K7N2GM-V nForce2 mobo 55
Sempron 2300+ (Retail) 65
RAM PC3200 256MB 23
Samsung 160GB Model SP1614C HDD SATA (OEM) 65
Shipping, ground (New Egg and PCAlchemy) 30
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535
For now, if I want to burn DVDs, I'll just scp them
to "my" PC.
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:12:35 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:16 -0500, Maverick wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Newegg Order, prices are a couple weeks ago...
> > [BIG SNIP]
> >
> > SilverStone Lascala SST-LC11 HTPC Case, Black $135
> > Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 170
> > Streamzap PC Remote 27
> > Chaintech 7NIF4 mobo 72
> > XP 2500+ Barton 80
> > RAM PC3200 256MB (2) 45
> > Samsung 160GB Model SP1614C HDD 100
> > BenQ Dual-Layer DVD+-RW Drive 50
> > Shipping, ground (New Egg and PCAlchemy) 40
> > ---
> > ~720
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