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Most folks buy their TV's at places like Sears or Best Buy, and there's a lot to be said for plunking your credit card down and driving home with a functional television set. But that's not my style. I've been using a Commodore 64 color monitor hooked up to a VCR since the late 80's and it's worked great. On the other hand, VCR's are going the way of the dodo and a 13" television with weak mono sound isn't much fun so I should probably upgrade.

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Here's a software PVR aimed for European users (but with some nice design features) http://etv.sourceforge.net/

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http://www.videolan.org/ - interesting project with clients and servers for streaming video.

http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ , http://www.freevix.org/, http://www.mythtv.org/ - linux mini-distros for media PC's (i.e. linux-driven tv). I use Mythtv for my LaborIntensiveTv project.

2003-06-20 - Spent a couple of hours fooling around with the setup. Was able to get the capture part working just fine (had to compile i2c as a module, also v4l stuff which is very old in the kernel). I can run xawtv and capture snapshots and they look fine. Display is FUBAR - I've installed X and DRI and it seems to run OK, but it splashes pixels all over the display. Looks almost as if you took the red, green and blue parts of the pixels and put them side by side instead of combining them into a single pixel. Guess I'll need some help.

In the mean time I figured out that the cable no longer provides basic signals (it did when we moved in) so I have to use a powered antenna to play around, which works poorly since I've got all of the gear in the basement. Comcast wants $45/mo for basic cable which seems amazingly expensive to me. I would get a $20 discount on the cable modem but I don't care since my company pays that.

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