For a while now I have considered getting DSTV, I do not even have M-NET at the moment. Now that DSTV also come with their own PVR (Personal Video Recorder) I was considering it. Over the New year long weekend I read an article about a guy that build his own PVR. I then decided that it would be a nice hobby project to also build my own. Here is my idea on what I will use (please comment if you have any other ideas)
Hardware
- Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-350
- AMD based PC (Athlon XP 1800 or faster)
- 1GB of RAM
- 160GB Harddisk or bigger
Software
- Linux OS (Probably Ubuntu Breezy but may consider Dapper)
- MythTV
I will add blog entries as I progress with this hobby project.