USB-based personal video recorder?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm thinking about wandering out today and picking up a USB TV tuner
to play with (no experience with those yet), and a friend suggested a
combination of the hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950 and the xawtv app.

  any thoughts on that?  reasons to avoid that particular combo?
alternative recommendations?  thanks.

rday
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