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The Godzilla PVR

The people over at Snapstream are at it again, this time building the 11-tuner (4 HD/7 SD) Godzilla PVR. Of course, there are few situations that you'd ever want 11 tuners and this is mostly a design exercise, but I'm pretty impressed by a single tower system with a single dual core hyperthreaded processor can process four simultaneous streams of HDTV, in addition to 7 more standard def streams. Looks like anyone can build one just like it for about $4k.

by Matt Haughey January 18, 2006 in News

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It would be much more impressive (and useful) to simultaniously playback more than one live stream of TV, say PIP. Regardless of how many tuners I stuff in a tower, I still can't set up a home sports bar. ;)

Posted by: Dave Zatz at Jan 19, 2006 3:22:30 AM

Only 11 recordings at once? Get a machine with 6 digitv cards (eg 1 PCI, and 5 USB boxes)and the most recent version of their software and you can record /all/ 36 odd channels of digital terestrial TV here in the UK* + 20 or so radio channels.

* may need to look at the harddisk layout - each mux is about 40mbps...

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Posted by: Merten at Jan 21, 2006 11:37:50 AM

Is this being made specifically for those buying the NFL package on direct tv? It is an option for recording virtually every game on.

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Posted by: Todd Lokken at Jan 26, 2006 9:01:59 AM

This site sucks!

Posted by: Randy at Mar 7, 2006 5:23:29 AM

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