Originally Posted by
thomson
The TiVo is a purpose built hardware platform that was designed from the ground up to be both cost effective and quiet (and yes it does run on a Linux kernel)... even with the price of PC components today, you can probably expect to shell out >$2k to build a comparable system... and you are unlikely to ever be happy with it.
Please don't let me put you off... if you have the time and money then it is a worthwhile project and you will learn a lot... but it is pretty much one of those 80/20 projects... you will be able to get 80% of what you want going pretty simply, but then get stuck on the final 20%.
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