Just buy a standard box and install MythTV.
That way you get what ever you want from HD to digital optical output and what ever bittorrent client you want. Not forgetting mame!

GBPVR does HD already and its free.

It can do 1080p or what ever format is being broadcast with the right Tuner cards, it can do cable, satellite, freeview....

www.gbpvr.com

End of story..

The device supports USB tuners, Two tuners might be possible with DVB-T, I wouldn't expect two ATSC to make the device very happy though.

wrt TiVo its really a different animal, it plays back downloaded content, all its recordings are in mpeg-4 and playable on handhelds, it can stream content out over the net, etc.

If it doesn't do bit torrent then what good is it?
It should also have Any DVD technology to bust all the protection schemes wide open. And also have bit torrent.
Oh: and does it have an iPod port? Cuz without that.....

Tivo HD exists and works. Well. The 2nd generation box is pretty cheap.

Damn I wish someone would just do it right. Why the heck did they stop at 720p? They should also build-in support for 1080p too, at least for people who rip blu-ray etc.

It seems a stupid limitation that will shoot this otherwise great product in the foot.


It might be that they've just used a standard RCA connector (which is why I don't see it), but you also don't mention something that's rather important to a media centre...

A tuner!

Preferably two.