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Custom home theater PC built inside a TIVO case

October 13th, 2008 at 8:47 am by Rakesh

An enthusiast custom-modified an old TIVO case to house his home theater PC. He’s running XBox Media Center, a piece of open-source media center software, but if he were running Beyond TV and he wanted to complete the theme, he could grab the community-created TIVO look alike skin for Beyond TV and the community-created TIVO-like sound effects. Ha! ;-)

TIVO-like skin for Beyond TV created by a SnapStream community member

(via Missing Remote)

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One Response to “Custom home theater PC built inside a TIVO case”

  1. Get a Gravatar at gravatar.com Use that TiVo Box for Your HTPC | eHomeUpgrade Says:
    October 14th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    [...] Still looking for that perfect media center case that performs with the power you want and looks natural on you’re A/V rack? Well perhaps a TiVo that’s been modified like this would work. The mod doesn’t seem that difficult, adding a few screw holes here and there to mount everything. The real challenge for this, and all HTPCs for that matter, is heat control. Holes had to be cut in the top of the case to keep the processor cooled to a balmy 120F. Marshmallows anyone? The box run Ubuntu Linux on a 4GB flash drive mounted in the case. XBMC Media Center was used as the media server but for a fun twist, users could use Beyond TV and its TiVo look alike skin and sound alike files to “recreate” the TiVo experience with complete control. The device seems to function well, with Blu-ray rips playing at 1080p and DVD rips upscaled to 720p. Never underestimate the power of American ingenuity. [via] [...]