It's certainly an interesting idea that is related to the sea change in how people interact with media that has been ongoing for the last half a decade or so. A

It's certainly an interesting idea that is related to the sea change in how people interact with media that has been ongoing for the last half a decade or so. As far as getting something for your own purposes, I think building something on top of MythTV is probably fastest - avoids the annoying reinventing the wheel stuff. I have shied (sp?) away from video work because it is inherently computationally and bandwidth expensive - so most of my personal work has focused on text based stuff, which is much cheaper to make scalable (: