Lately, I’ve had a growing interest in getting a PVR (Personal Video Recorder), but without the subscription fee that Tivo’s get ya for. So, I’ve been keeping my eye out on the home brew market. Slashdot just posted this article that sums up a number of commercial units that are not ‘subscription’.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/01/12/027210.shtml?tid=129&tid=137&tid=106