[TriLUG] MythTV box recommendations?

[Charles Mangin]

after our flaky Time Warner DVR ate the Superbowl*, i now have spousal  
approval to try and build a mythTV or other similar DVR.

i'm looking for hardware recommendations and caveats with working with  
TWC for this. what do i need to get from them - a cablecard? what  
about recording more than one show at a time, do i need two cards?  
will i even be able to get TWC to give me these things without selling  
my soul to them?

and, typically being a Mac guy, i'm not terribly familiar with what  
i'll need for the box itself. any recommendations or kits for starting  
point would be immensely helpful.



*we were playing it delayed, but the DVR barfed, and we lost the  
second and third quarters.


Charles Mangin
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