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Turning Your Computer Into A Digital Video Recorder For Under $70.
Computers | May 16, 05
If you don't feel like paying hundreds of dollars for a stand-alone digital video recorder, you should know how cheap its gotten to give your computer the same functionality, assuming your machine already has a DVD-RW drive.
Video-capture packages consisting of a TV tuner card and software can turn your laptop or desktop into a DVR. Further, you can do so for surprisingly little money. For example, the AverMedia UltraTV USB 300 External USB 2.0 is such a device. Designed to fit in your laptop case, its power is drawn from its USB connection so no separate transformer is required. The UltraTV software works with free TitanTV program scheduling and allows pause and replay of live shows, much as TiVo does. And what's really remarkable is the price – now available from vendors for less than seventy bucks.
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