DIY DVR

Tivo, anyone?  We didn't think so.  Junk the TiVo and start paying subscription fees to yourself by making your own DVR. 

"For my money, time, and, let’s be honest, the gratification of a solid DIY project, I’m a big proponent of building your own digital video recorder (DVR). TiVo is pretty good at what TiVo does, but imagine a world where you can also tweak your TiVo to do anything you can do with any other computer."