If I had a spare computer laying around, I’d have used it, but being that I was relocated and could only take with me what I could check on a plane, I bought everything new. Found a 1Ghz Pentium III on Craigslist for 100ish. It had a Geforce2 with s-vid out so that was great. I got the IVTV compatible WinTV 500 (2 tuners for recording and watching/recording two shows at the same time – also has onboard mpeg encoding to save PC processing time) on Newegg for 130 and a 400Gb HD from Frys for 110. Set up the PC with fedora core 4 and kde and installed the whole mythtv suite using yum. I’ve since compiled a newer version from source to up my geek cred, but I’ll admit I took the easy way out initially and it works wonderfully. Aside from some slowdowns (due to lousey planning on my part), it runs great and I’ve been slowly filling my HD up for about two weeks now.