Integrate Dance Dance Revolution Into Your PVR

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[Tech Talk] Here's another argument for building your own DVR rather than buying a TiVo or ReplayTV. Over at Build Your Own PVR they have an article on how you can integrate the video game Dance Dance Revolution into your DVR. Well technically it's not DDR but a similar game called Stepmania which runs on the PC

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[TVHarmony] Dance till you Drop DVR: Want another good reason to build your own DVR? The guys at Build Your Own PVR.com have an article on integrating a Dance Dance Revolution game into a PVR complete with USB enabled Dance Pads (USB enabled Dance Pants sold separately).

[Pvrblog.com] VOOM Demo Video | PVRblog: PVRBlog points to an amazing VOOM Demo Video for what's coming in 2005. Voom has partnered with Uccentric to create a multi-room DVR / Media sharing network. On Voom it works with a main DVR rig, or rigs which network together to share content to .

[Pvrblog.com] Interesting study on fast-forwarding | PVRblog: I also suspect we're used to decades of ads displaying images at a certain rate and a certain pace, and I wouldn't be surprised if a psychologist would say the super quick cuts seen during FF would be more jarring and memorable in the end. [via MarketingVox and Mike] 

[Tvharmony.com] TVHarmony: Copyright issues aside, BitTorrent of television shows is a great resource for downloading and viewing programming your DVR didn't catch. For some series that require context to get emotionally involved in the show, downloading old episodes let new potential viewers catch up and become regular viewers, so in some ways it stimulates more viewing as opposed to hurting their investments.

[Byopvr.com] Build Your Own PVR :: Why Tivo When you can Freevo?: It's meant to be a shake and bake PVR kit in a box with a Conexant chipset based hardware MPEG encoding tuner card, BeyondTV Subscriber Edition, Beyond Media (full), FireFly remote control, and most of the possible cable combinations you'd need to set up your DIY PVR. A pretty darn good package for $130 bucks, but you'll need to wait for the official review to know if it's worth it =)

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Posted at May 27, 2005 10:29 AM