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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

> I already have 5 computers at home! Why don't they sell the 
> OS in a box? 
> 
> Could I, or could I not, get a video cable, and connect it 
> from my TV to
> the video capture card on the PC, and record the video that way?

You could do that if your PC also has a decent video (out) card with S-Video
or component video out.  You'll also want a decent amount of memory and
fairly new processor.  I tried running on an older box with a 1GHz Duron but
it just didn't perform well in my opinion.  I have to warn you that my
'build a DVR out of an old PC' project ended up with me buying all new
equipment with the exception of the DVD drive.  I found the PC noise to be a
real issue and had to buy more expensive fans and power supply.

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> Original Message:
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> From: Tom Caswell derpimpkar AT yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:21:53 -0800 (PST)
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] TW DVR to PC/DVD
> 
> 
> I recently switched from a Tivo (series 1) to a Windows Media 
> Center.  I
> was thinking about getting a new Tivo but the WMC beat out 
> the Tivo in most
> categories.  I suggest getting a WMC.
>  
> Tom
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Broome <jbroome AT gmail.com>
> To: marcia AT nc.rr.com; Internetworkers:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ 
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:07:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] TW DVR to PC/DVD
> 
> 
> On 1/3/06, marcia AT nc.rr.com <marcia AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Does anybody know how I can transfer, download, stream... the shows
> > recorded with my TW DVR into my PC and then to a DVD? I see 
> the DVR has a
> > UBS port, a slot that looks like some kind of flash memory, 
> does it also
> > have Firewire?
> 
> I'm pretty sure the TWC dvr is a black box that can't be futzed with. 
> If you want to be able to pull stuff off your DVR to play somewhere
> else, a series 2 tivo is the way to go.
> 
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