[bryanthompson]

I'm building a mythTV box right now. The TV card I'm going to use is a Hauppauge 250. My friend is building one also, but his is about 10 times the computer and he's using a Hauppauge 500, which has a dual tuner, so you can record on one channel and watch another.

edit: Also, I believe the Hauppauge's come with windows software, although since we're using Linux we just got white-boxed hardware with no software. We're using MythTV as the distro, and it lets you watch/rip dvds, record tv, pause live tv, skip, record shows without commercials, etc., and it also has a web browser and information panel where you can check the weather and read RSS feeds. Also you can get an lirc remote so you don't have to use keyboard.