I found this article today on digg:
http://servers.linux.com/servers/07/04/18/1531247.shtml?tid=117&tid=39
It is no secret that I really want to do a full-blown MythTV setup complete with network back-end servers running raid, and all that jazz. But ultimately, when looking into the money of trying to get my older hardware to do that, and what new hardware I would have to buy, it has turned into more of a waiting game. Waiting for good HDTV tuner cards, and waiting until I had the money and an excuse to buy a new computer, so my old one could become a standalone DVR / mythTV box (since it is really the only one with enough power to do encoding, recording, and playback).
The nice part of this little guy is that it actually does a bunch of that work for me! And it streams it over the internet and mythTV just sees it as if it were a regular TV source or PCI card. Plus, it doesn’t have just one HD tuner, it has TWO! So you can watch one show and record another (good for when smallville and the office is on) And, the price doesn’t suck.
I’m going to check out a few more reviews and see if I can find stuff out about it, but it looks like the perfect answer to most of my HD tuner problems, and if I’m not mistaken I believe my brothers old P3 1Ghz my cut it as a short-term myth box for basic recording and playback with this doing reception and encoding (if it does the encoding….it streams the TV over the ethernet, so it should do some kind of encoding…right?)
Anyway, thought I would share.