Systm.org - BYO MythTV Box

Before the TechTV network was destroyed by Comcast and merged with the lame G4 network, The Screen Savers show turned us on to some great ideas for home theater and home automation projects like TiVo hacking and DVarchive for ReplayTV. One of the shows contributors, Kevin Rose became somewhat famous for his series on Xbox Mods which spawned a segment on TSS called Dark Tips. While at G4 / TechTV, Kevin Rose and Dan Huard were also producing some content on thebroken.org and working to develop an internet based show. After some turmoil with G4, it seems that thankfully they are now out on their own with a new site and show called Systm and are producing some really good content. The videos are available for download over BitTorrent and there are links on their site to the content.

The second episode is a great segment on building your own PC based DVR using MythTV. MythTV offers a low cost, open source alternative to commercial media center PCs. The features are really great, but as you'll see, there is some work to do to get it setup.

Check out Systm.org and do what you can to support these guys.
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