Disadvantage: you can't use use your laptop the way it's meant to be used when you're using it as a PVR, and you know, laptops can be expensive!

Can you show us pictures of your PVR at work? Can your PVR record shows automatically?

Your ideas really work big time,

However there is only one disadvantage that i can not bring my whole family to gather and sit infront of a small 19inch laptop screen,

Are there any other ways of hetting a PVR like setup with a tv and a Free to Air decoder /receiver ?

Funny u'd most definitely spoil ur laptop and if u can afford to render a laptop into a video recorder then y can't u afford a DVR and not to talk about almighty NEPA

Oh Boy I give ur laptop 2 months to give up

Yeah, I have done it in the past during the last bba, but it is not 100% effective because sometimes, the computer may hang in the middle of an important recording. You can schedule a recording if you have a very good digital TV card like mine which is Lightwave USB TV/AV Combo. I think one would need a higher specifications lappy that doesnt come cheap. Like what some people said, my lappy did not last before it crashed. Now I am in a dilemma on what to do. I need another motherboard for my lappy which the cost is as much as buying a new laptop.

instead of using a laptop why not build a media center pc instead. Thats a cheaper alternative. If you have an Xbox you could also turn it into a media center by modding it.