HTPC

I am still holding out on starting my home brew PVR. Maybe it is because there isn't anything worth recording lately but that should change pretty soon when ABC's Lost returns next month..

Matthew Gast has a follow up article on his attempts to build a MythTV box.

I have been getting more and more motivated to build my own PVR lately despite the fact that I already own two Series 2 Tivos. I guess a big motivating factor is that I want something that can do HDTV instead of just standard definition television. 

I personally do not have a High Definition television but I have had a chance to see plenty of shows in high def from my computer and I am impressed! Anyway, here are two new resources that can be valuable additions to the normal places for information (like http://mythtv.org and various discussion boards).

The first is a 15 minute video from former TechTV host Kevin Rose on his new site called Systm. Their second episode is somewhat of a HOWTO for building your own MythBox.

The second resource is an O'Reilly article called "Building My MythTV Box, Part 1: Hardware" that has very sound advice and does a great job of making some of the tough decisions on what to use for your HTPC.