Kabel Deutschland has found a new way to force me to get their digital system, remove TV5 Monde from the standard offer g. It is now only available in the digital subscription. It is not that a problem as I can get a couple of more channels with the move and the price is not very high.

I thought it was a good moment to get a better PVR system than my badly configured linux box. But it is real pain to find a good receiver/recorder with a lan or USB port. Kabel D does not allow any device to have a way to export data, making them useless as HPTC systems… (humax, nokia DBOX or other similar systems). I don’t really care to copy my recorded movies or tv shows but I really hate to have twenty devices to watch tvs, dvd or listen to some audio streams…

It looks my only choice is to buy or build a complete HTPC. So far the dreambox seems to be the only one available around here (at a reasonable price). The good thing is that it runs under linux and the complete code is available (gpl) and supports twin tuners (cable, satellite or terrestrial):)

Does anyone have experiences with this device (like does the kabel D card works with their CI?)? Or know any good alternative?

Some requirements:

• lan or wlan interface
• USB port
• dual tuners
• internal HDD support

There is things that will never change.

Too many users wait the stable release to actually test it, we can live with that. But where it is more than annoying (and I’m polite), it is all these "top" security guys waiting for the stable releases to report issues or to announce proudly that a fix was not correct or not present at all.

The last one in this wonderful community is securityreason.com. As they said to have reported the problem to the php securtiy team, they are half pardoned. But why having waited the final release to report the issue? That’s a rhetorical question, no need to start a FUD/troll here about how bad we are, ‘‘you" had four release candidates to do it.