{"id":37,"date":"2006-01-04T08:28:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T06:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-01-04T08:45:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T06:45:12","slug":"time-to-get-dstv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/time-to-get-dstv\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to get DSTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now I have considered getting DSTV, I do not even have M-NET at the moment.  Now that DSTV also come with their own PVR (Personal Video Recorder) I was considering it.   Over the New year long weekend I read an article about a guy that build his own PVR.  I then decided that it would be a nice hobby project to also build my own.  Here is my idea on what I will use (please comment if you have any other ideas)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Hardware<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-350<\/li>\n<li>AMD based PC (Athlon XP 1800 or faster)<\/li>\n<li>1GB of RAM<\/li>\n<li>160GB Harddisk or bigger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Software<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux OS (Probably Ubuntu Breezy but may consider Dapper)<\/li>\n<li>MythTV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will add blog entries as I progress with this hobby project.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/PVR\">PVR<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/DSTV\">DSTV<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/M-NET\">M-NET<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Ubuntu\">Ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now I have considered getting DSTV, I do not even have M-NET at the moment. Now that DSTV also come with their own PVR (Personal Video Recorder) I was considering it. Over the New year long weekend <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/time-to-get-dstv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Time to get DSTV<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-technical","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}