Twelve Black Code Monkeys

eHomeUpgrade has this great piece on how to build your own 6-tuner “Medusa PVR.” In other words a home-made “Tivo” that can store 6 programs simultaneously. It will set you back $1,200 which is a bargain compared to the $4,000 Sony Vaio X. However, as listed, the unit only has a 40GB hard drive, which will store only abour 40 hours max of standard definition TV. The Vaio X has 1.3 Terrabytes of data, or 1,300 or so hours. So in order to get up to that, you might need to add another $800 or so, making it closer to $2K – but that’s still half the price, even if it may be more work to set up and not quite as pretty. Ok, who wants to contract me out to build one for them?

Via Gizmodo