Mark Rogers <mark@quarella.co.uk> wrote:
Does anyone have any knowledge/experience of commercially available Linux PVRs, such as http://www.darkbox.co.uk http://www.dreambox.org.uk
I have some knowledge of them, but no experience yet. The Dreambox is reputedly the luxury one, but German and expensive, while DarkBox and EagleBox are UK-centric similar systems. They vary in connections, facilities, user interface and so on. I'm pretty sure you can upload whatever system you want to the Dreambox, but I'm a lot less clear about the Dark and Eagle. Myself, I'm still intending to add a silent/low-power PSU and DVB-S hardware decoder card to a PC when I get a quiet holiday, mainly so I can hack the user interface until it doesn't suck... so I'd be interested to know if the Dark and Eagle are hackable and render my plan obsolete! Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237