the silence in this thread speaks volumes, and my earlier thought came true...HD PVR, now for the year wait for it's support.
sorry fairchild, I hadn't seen your reply, as somehow I never recieved the notice of your post as I did the last post recently here, glad the database is stable. All materials concerning the firewire recording can be found on the AVS forum. I just got home from vacation, so I don't have any links handy, please PM me if you still want to try to implement this....I'll do what I can as a layman to help.