New Toys

We've had a DVR cable box for almost two years. It has revolutionized home recording, making the VCR obsolete. There's no need for tapes, and it's amazingly easy to record shows. However, we've found that with 3 people trying to record shows, often, there's conflict. So, I began to research options of setting up a PVR on our basement computer. I discovered Beyond TV, which when combined with a TV capture card, sets up the same capabilities on the PC. It's very cool, and should alleviate some of the bottleneck we've experienced on the DVR. And, I can convert the MPEG2 files into WMV files, so that I can take shows with me to use on other computers (laptops, work computers, etc). It's the technological age, and it's amazing at how many new toys there are
each year.