Hard drive recorders

karltimber

Howdy, am off to the US in feb for a few months and was thinking of purchasing a hard drive recorder.
am getting sick of tapes especially with vcr's going out of the shops
and a dvd recorder just seems useless - with hard drive recorders out there.

I know a dvd-recorder would be good if you wanted to keep anything from the tv but who keeps movies off the tv anymore ??

Anyhow - does anyone have any insight in these - anyone have one --what costs --what size hard drive ??

Thanks

eth0_

Well a hard disc recorder would be useless to you if you bought it in America, as it would most likely be NTSC format and we use PAL format TV here

They're cheap enough here, get them in Dixons up the north.

Only thing is, your box will need to dial into the UK every night to download the listings.

You could check out the Freevo project (google it) if you're into Linux!

Thraktor

If you're a Sky subscriber I'd very much recommend getting Sky+, simply because it's so damn easy to use, you just plug the box in and it works exactly as you'd expect it, no fiddling or extra subscriptions needed. Admittedly it is only available in a 40GB model here, although you'd be a fool to spend the extra money on getting the 160GB model in the UK, as they can be quite easily upgraded at home, and with the £300 extra it costs over the 40GB (yes, that's £300, or €425), you could self-install one of these babies, and still have a 40GB hard drive and €240 left over.

I haven't really had any experience with other hard disk recorders, but my Sky+ seems to do the job perfectly, so that's my advice.

555

Hi, I'm thinking about building a PVR (harddisk recorder) and I was wondering if anyone had any pointers to a decent looking chassis that wouldn't look out of place sitting under at TV.

I already have an XBox running XBMC (which is great, btw) but I'd like to be able to record from TV.

I have a storage server in the attic and ethernet running around the house, so all I need this little box to do is video capture and run something like freevo.

Something with a small footprint, that is quiet, has a remote control would be ideal.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
ct

Explosive_Cornflake

Komplett are doing HTPC cases now.
http://www.komplett.ie/k/kl.asp?bn=10553