$3000 Blu-Ray and HD-DVD recorders = $500 D-VHS recorders = MPEG stream recorders = bad 4ch0n advice = stupid whiteboy wasted daddy's munny, just like he wasted it on a fucking Xbox 360
$1500 HD component PCI-E cap card + crazy fast RAID + lots of RAM + dual-core CPU = raw HD realtime video recorder = 1337j@Pz = not you
$230 SD component PCI cap card + dscaler = deinterlaced SD low-latency video recorder = fanboy