[mythtv-users] prebuilt pvrs for developers benefit?

[Chris Petersen]

> The hardware is cheap you can get mini box for 150 cpu for 50 memory 50 and
> nice tv card from 20  to 200. hard drive 120GB is 70

$500 isn't cheap.  Heck, $300 isn't cheap, especially with cable
providers starting to offer DVR's with their digital cable packages
(Tivo is only as popular as it is because it's part of DirecTV - look at
how much worse off ReplayTV is).

> Now with tivo you are limited to what you can record and you have pay fee to
> get programing  liftime is 299 for one unit so when you upgrade your tivo
> you have to pay another 299.

Can't argue with this.

BTW, not sure if people keep up on this stuff, but Moxie is seemingly
finally coming to market...  http://www.digeo.com/ - it's a
client-server system, just like myth (although not quite as powerful, I
think the number of clients is limited), and has some MASSIVE financial
backing (Paul Allen, if I recall correctly), which explains how they're
still around about 2 years after announcing their product.  Anyway, this
is what you'd have to compete against, not Tivo.  No pricing on the
system itself, but it says that an extra client box will cost $79. 
That's dirt cheap.

-Chris