> Any thoughts and recommendations for hardware etc would be appreciated. > My wife has a Pioneer recorder which she is very happy with (she decided to go that way because my son and I kept changinging our MythTV setup. (He has now changed it to Windows media centre)
As Nick said the MythTV (or Win MC) are much more versatile than the basic off the shelf units. There is also an NZ company which can sell you a built up MythTV setup and also do your updates remotely so you have an "off the shelf" solution. See http://www.mypvr.co.nz/mypvr/ Rob