Fwd: Accessible Personal Digital Video Recorder???

Fwd: Accessible Personal Digital Video Recorder???

[David Andrews]

>From: David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com>
>Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:38:43 -0500
>Subject: Accessible Personal Digital Video Recorder???
>To: gui-talk@NFBnet.org (Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List)
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>Accessible Personal Video Recorder
>
>From:  Fernando H. Botelho
>
>You may have seen advertisements for personal video recorders like Replay TV
>and Tivo. They are essentially desktop computers disguised as VCRs. The
>major difference between PVR machines and a VCR is that Personal Video
>Recorders record on a computer hard disk instead of a video tape and allow
>you much more flexibility in terms of scheduling what shows you want to
>record and so forth.
>They also allow for easy fast forwarding through advertisements and allow
>usually instant playback whenever you miss a joke or want to see something
>again on live TV.
>
>Any way, this is all wonderful, but I had no hopes of using one of these
>until 5 or 6 years from now, when they become obsolete enough for
>manufacturers to even think about making them accessible.
>
>This is not to complain, this is just to share with you the URL of a site
>that explains how to make a Linux computer become your own Personal Video
>Recorder, one which you can access all features through for example, a
>telnet session... Your significant other is not left out, he or she can
>access the features with a conventional remote control.
>
>The URL is:
>http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/index.htm
>
>If any readers will be putting one of these together, feel free to get in
>touch with me. I will start researching how I can put one together this
>weekend.
>
>Fernando
>
>He is on the below email list if you are interested.
>
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