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I received my Free Apple iPod today! You can get yours too. You can also Click here for pictures.

A new article was added about Building Your Own PVR. The story entitled “Building the Personal Video Recorder” “A Mini-ITX based PC in an old DirecTV Satellite Receiver’s case”, details some of the steps involved in building my quest to build a TiVo like device. See Articles on the Main Menu at the left for more info.

planetjay.com has been completely redesigned using Mambo Open Source. The Gallery has been moved to it’s own subdomain.

Most of the old content can still be found under Articles on the Main Menu.

As Rampy put it:

BYOPVR is dedicated to Building your own Personal Video Recorder (PVR), Personal Video Recorder (PVR), or Home Theater PC (HTPC) from scratch using PC parts and software.

It’s much more fun, geeky, and flexible than buying a commercial PVR like Tivo, or ReplayTV. You can’t play MAME on your Tivo (well not yet — those TiVo haxors are pretty enterprising).

Advances (and price drops) in video card technology, small form factor PC’s, and Open Source Software PVR solutions have made rolling your own much easier than ever before.

If that sounds like you bag, come on down and discuss the finer points of building your own tivo-esque PC. =)

2 new articles were added to the site. One is information on Hauppauge’s WinTV-Nova-s card, FTA, and DVB. The other is a list of Free-To-Air DVB satellite channels available in the US. See Articles on the Main Menu at the left for more info.