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<blockquote data-quote="Brian Simpson" data-source="post: 47458" data-attributes="member: 19792">I've been researching building my own PVR for the last few months, but the amount of information out there is just staggering.I'm hoping to shortcut some questions I have if someone would be nice enough to help me out.I want the PVR I'm building to record HD and normal TV, with 2 tuners, and hook it up to the DVI connection on my Sony HDTV LCD Monitor.I also have DirecTV as the provider for my TV signal.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have a DirecTV tivo now, and will probably be ditching that for DirecTV set top box when I get this built.What do I need to use as far as TV capture cards that would decode in hardware and work with DirecTV?What video card do I need that would work with that card, and output via DVI to the TV?How fast of a processor would I need do this?I want this to replace my Tivo, so that is my primary concern, it will be a dedicated box, and won't be used for gaming, normal computing, etc.Thank you so very much for any advice!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brian Simpson, post: 47458, member: 19792"] I've been researching building my own PVR for the last few months, but the amount of information out there is just staggering. I'm hoping to shortcut some questions I have if someone would be nice enough to help me out. I want the PVR I'm building to record HD and normal TV, with 2 tuners, and hook it up to the DVI connection on my Sony HDTV LCD Monitor. I also have DirecTV as the provider for my TV signal. I have a DirecTV tivo now, and will probably be ditching that for DirecTV set top box when I get this built. What do I need to use as far as TV capture cards that would decode in hardware and work with DirecTV? What video card do I need that would work with that card, and output via DVI to the TV? How fast of a processor would I need do this? I want this to replace my Tivo, so that is my primary concern, it will be a dedicated box, and won't be used for gaming, normal computing, etc. Thank you so very much for any advice!! [/QUOTE]

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