Has anyone built a PVR here?

[ladymuck]

Is that one of the Pace boxes with the crappy software that locks-up, the box where you have to recycle the mains to recover it?

Price depends on quality of components. £300 may just be achievable.

Mine? No, have to admit that there isn't an ounce of legit s/ware on it, so if you factored that in I probably should have spent an extra £300 on that too.

Trying to remember the full spec, DVD +/- R/RW 16x/8x drive, Hauppage card (can't remember which one specifically unfortunately), Nvidia Geforce 4 graphics, Athlon XP 3200+, 120GB drive, 1GB crucial ram, Abit AN7 Max-2 mobo, I think! Oh and a wireless card coz the servers and switch are upstairs and I don't want my house riddled with cat5 all over the place.

[Xenophon]

Thinking of building a PVR - has anyone done this? What pit falls should I miss?

I write software for them for a living...

Geeks.

[Addanc]

No, it's a Humax PVR8000 (or some such name). No problems with it locking up so far. If you're paying £300 you're being ripped off, even if you want a built in DVD recorder.

Its not just a PVR, its a complete Home Entertainment System (i.e. TV, Games, Music, Internet).

Mine? No, have to admit that there isn't an ounce of legit s/ware on it, so if you factored that in I probably should have spent an extra £300 on that too.

Swapped my obsolete legal copy of Win98 for a copy of WinXP. Company need to supply S/W maintenance system with tools that don't run on XP. All other S/W either downloaded free from Internet or came with purchased H/W. Stand alone S/W costs nil.

[SupremeSpod]

I have a Hauppauge PVR 350 in a windows XP box. comes with all the software and you can use the en/decoder on the board for video editing.