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Another option with a little twist. Rather than recording the shows, use a combination of sickbeard and sabnzbd to download them automatically from usenet. Add in couchpotato if you want to do...
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Would you look at that. I didn't know they had gotten it running for linux. Interesting. I wonder how functional/buggy it is.
Anyway, "copy freely" refers to the flags that cable providers...
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Thanks for the suggestions but I am trying to keep this legal so downloading from torrents or newsgroups isn't my first choice.
I have looked at Hulu and it has some of the shows we like but there...
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I want to build as close to a whole house DVR system as I can. Record multiple shows and view on all TVs.
I already have a Linux box running MediaTomb that serves movies pretty well. To view the...
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Or get Hulu Plus & then you can use their 4,588T dvr & watch from any room. ;-)
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Useful, but they might not have every show OP wants. Def something to check out, though (along with netflix).
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and amazon prime's video service.
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I think the point wmelnick is making with the newsgroups & downloaders is to let others record them (and post-process them, ie remove commercials) so you don't have to. However, doing so usually...
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Thread created 03-05-2012 by glsvb
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Buy a bunch of TiVos. They can copy back and forth to each other, and the newer ones can stream as well. You can use pyTivo to stream the movies from your linux box to the tivos. This is not the...
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Thread created 03-05-2012 by glsvb
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I have looked at the TIVO option but without the lifetime subscription or at least a resonable one for used systems, It is cheaper to buy the service from time warner.
I have some old replay tv...