Dancing About Architecture

If you've ever talked to me for more than, oh, 5 minutes, you probably know that I love my TiVo. Actually, I love my three DirecTV DVRs (with TiVo) as they're now called. I've jacked them up and hacked them so that a couple of them have 200 hours of recording a piece and one of them has a net connection with video extraction and DVD burning. The hacking community for TiVo is most impressive and helpful (just check out the TiVo Community Forum or, more dangerously, the DealDatabase Forum) -- I am but a grateful beneficiary of all of their hard work.

So while doing all that hacking is fun, there's a bit too much reverse engineering for my taste. Enter MythTV: a homebrew Linux-based PVR project. I've got a few too many things going on right now to tackle setting this up, but from the buzz and the screenshots, this looks to be a lot of fun!