Let Your PC Turbocharge Your TV: Personal video recorders such as TiVo cost a lot; why not build one yourself? [in BusinessWeek]
"My conclusion: It will cost you a little more than $200, a free evening or weekend, and--geek alert--the guts to open up your computer and tinker a bit to install the special video card. It's easier than you think. If you're still intimidated, I'll suggest a couple of ways to get around it."
The television industry is running scared [in The Boston Globe]
"Adding TiVo-like capabilities to a PC allows for a variety of paradigm-busting applications. Say you've got multiple computers in your home, all networked together. The SnapStream software contains a built-in network server, so you can watch a recorded program on any PC in the house. Suppose you own a palm-top computer that runs Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. You can download a SnapStream video and watch it during the morning commute."
Ouch. BusinessWeek has an article detailing how to add digital video recorder technology (also known as personal video recorders) to your PC, complete with recommendations for video cards. This link comes from the comments in a Slashdot post called The Napsterization of TV that itself points to a Boston Globe article about SnapStream recording software and what it may mean for digitization of televised content. To paraphrase one of the commenters in the Slashdot article, if you're reading about this in BW and TBL, it's time for the bigco folks to wake up and figure out how to work with these technologies, not against them.
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