I like the idea of saving the money, and actually, I kind of like the idea of geeking out on this project.
Problem is, any hybrid solution is going to be harder to use than good old DTV DVR. If I were the only user, that would probably be okay.
I dunno, maybe there is away to use MythTV, Boxee or something to tie it all together, but I just don't seem to have the energy.
Agreed. In our house, I standardized on Tivos for the wife. I put her non-OTA content on our server and the Tivo sees it on the network as a share. The only manual thing I have to do is pull the content and save it to the share. My Mac Mini manages those share folders and transcoding w/ pytivo. For her, the Tivo interface is all she has to deal w/. We have the Roku as well but it's not perfect w/ Playon and Hulu Plus isn't there yet.
