It's all a matter of size

Well, a week into the big build, and things are settling down nicely. Recordings are working as they should be (once I got over the over-zealous tendencies to set everything to "record on any channel, at any time", which due to the setup seems to mean "record this as many times as possible, regardless of if it's one you've already got - and by all means record the same program twice at the same time on different regional variations of the same channel"). MythWeb is a brilliant invention, and makes configuring recordings and the like a dream. Being able to watch NasaTV on the big screen is just great. Even commercial flagging works a charm (even though everything I read said it was hit and miss in the UK).

The problem now is fairly simple ... a 40 Gb hard drive just doesn't cut it. With the average recording rate being around the 1.5 to 2Gb per hour, you don't get many recordings before things start grinding a bit. Having a read around it would seem that the average disk size for the mainstream users is about 500Gb or more, depending on how much you want to be able to keep at any one time (or how many DVD's you rip to disk).

Also, I am itching to try another input card on there, as one single DVB-S input does give a shed load of channels, but it is also missing quite a few that you get on DVB-T, as well as often nagging about conflicts when I try and watch live TV. I think it's going to be a USB one, but I have a lot more reading to do on them yet.