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Comment Build your own DVR (Score 1) 697

by olibri (#35907580) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment?
As others in the thread have mentioned: The best thing to do is to build your own DVR out of an obsolete computer and connect it to the TV. With a $40 USB dongle you can connect an ATSC antenna (antennaweb.org) to stream to your hard disk. With some software you can setup your recordings (Beyond TV is what I use, but I think the consumer version is gone now). Connect an RF remote to the PC (Firefly). Get a decent video card for at least MPEG2 decoding (MPEG4/H.264 hardware decoder is better though). Put it together and you're basically good to go. For those shows that you can't record, P2P (EZTV). You'll get everything possible in at least 720P without having to watch commercials. I haven't paid a cable bill in 5 years. 5x$1200/yr = $6000.
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PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361

Posted by samzenpus from the load-photon-torpedoes dept.
darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like. The author brings up several theories on propulsion (and orbits), weapons (explosives, kinetic and laser), and design. Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie."

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