Who said that conquering the world of media had to be expensive? Over at Jellysidedown, there is a recipe for a Blu-Ray spinning, HD-recording DVR for less than $500… with pictures to boot!
This little beauty is sporting a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board video that pumps 1080p out of a built in HDMI port (read more about how to select a motherboard for your DVR) and is powered by a dual core AMD Brisbane
. The box can spin both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD and burn DVDs with its LG drive (more Blu-Ray drives for your DVR). An eco-friendly Corsair power supply
keeps it filled with electrons and the media gets stored on a 320 GB drive.
Seems like a great little world-conqueror. I would definitely want to beef up the hard drive space (I started with a 320gb drive myself and am now bursting with 2TB) but am certainly pleased at the compactness of the build.
What do you think about this build? Run anything similar?