Chris May

Slashdot had a review for a book on hacking TiVo, which led to a discussion of that topic and the various other PVRs out there.

I could walk to this guy's store from my parent's house. $85 to do the HDD upgrade, or you can buy the HDD yourself and just follow his directions. I'm not sure if it is worth $85. I could probably do it in an hour myself, but maybe just to make sure I don't screw it up.

Here and here you can find some forums on TiVo and hacking it.

Most interesting to me was the mention of MythTV, a linux based product that is free, and can support 2 tuners. Aside from that, it also can do a lot of other cool stuff from what I have read, such as pictures, audio, weather reports, web browser, web server, etc. I also read somewhere that you can setup one as a "

Interesting.