Am I the only one thinking I am 99% of the way there with buying a $60 PCI TV tuner card from ATI? The programing guide is downloaded regularly and I just right-click the programme on the grid 'Save' and it gets taped. Its already an .mp2 on my hard-drive so down-coding to DIVX and then archiving or turning into VideoCD is simple.

I know its not nearby my TV set, but I could pipe the audio and video into the next room easily enough. And no, I don't have a remote control for it, but...hard to beat the price, and the storage is truly unlimited.