Hello:
I have dumped my Sat/Cable vendors for the past 5 years.
Now if you look at the hard cold $$$ $50*12 months *5years = $3000
I installed a used ($45) 400mhz PC and loaded
www.getmrio.comMIRO will farm the WWW 24/7 and will download Videos, you want.
I did install a 100GB HDD in this PC. But I have a total of about 5+TB of HDD\'s on my home network, The last HDD was a 1.5TB at a cost of $88 from
www.newegg.com with free shipping (it was on sale)
I upgraded to a 36\" LED HDTV with HDMI and VGA inputs for ($400)
I also have a PC with \"Windows Media Center\" 2TB\'s ($560) on the home network. I have this PC programed to record SDTV & HDTV ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, PBS.... programs 24/7.
So my one time cost of $1000 I have the best TV, You could too.
The FREE video player I use is VLC,
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/I use FREE Divx, and you can upgrade to Divx Pro codec for $19
http://www.divx.com/en/winI use FREE MCEBuddy to down convert \"BIG\" (13GB) HDTV recorded files down to 650MB for long term storge. (have it set to use CPU time on off hours.
http://thegreenbutton.com/files/24/vista_dvr-ms_tools/entry225930.aspxRegards
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