The Australian company D1 has begun selling the ‘Home Media Centre,’ a small PC pre-installed with MythTV. MythTV turns relatively high-end PCs with the proper TV capturing equipment into very nice PVRs, with even more features than TiVo and its ilk. It is someone questionable whether or not there is a market for a custom box that uses open-source software. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with MythTV—besides its occasional hiccup—but is it worth paying almost $1,350 for a bulked-up PVR that you could build yourself?
