For a while there I got interesting in PVR solution for the PC, checking out whether or not it was feasible to build my own PVR because TiVo isn’t really available in Canada. There were a few different solutions, but the MythTV software seemed quite capable. But it ran on Linux and I don’t particularly care for Linux, especially trying to configure it and its software. Besides, I eventually realized that I would never be able to record my cable provider’s HD channels, and that just wouldn’t do.

But for some people without that problem, Monolith comes to the rescue. Monolith has pre-built media center Linux computers with MythTV. It comes installed with the ever more popular Ubuntu Linux, and models start at $650. You can, of course, get your computer in all sorts of configurations, including storage of up to 400GB. That’s a lot of TV programming!

Monolith Media Center brings MythTV to the technophobe