Roll Your Own Digital Video Recorder
by Howard Wen
08/29/2002
TiVo users in Great Britain were treated to a "surprise" in May 2002. Their TiVo set-top boxes recorded an episode of a new BBC comedy -- without them having programmed their boxes to do so. Worse, the recording could not be deleted; it only automatically deleted itself after four days.
It's partly because of incidents like this that Klaus Schmidinger from southern Bavaria, Germany created Video Disk Recorder, or VDR. VDR serves as a user interface for those who want to build their own digital satellite-TV receiver and recorder box running under Linux. It is based mainly on the DVB-S digital satellite TV receiver card from....
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