Re-purpose 3View PVRs, anyone?

Just like buying Acorn in 1982 because it was British, I became proud owner of two (yes, two) British designed 3View PVRs (albeit dependent upon a Linux and some bought-in US AV software) with excellent prospects, specs and UI (See this 3View site which is informative but not added to after 2015; the company died around 2012).

So they are effectively two idle Linux boxes each with a 500GB disc, not to mention the DTV tuners (and their spares).

Ripe for re-purposing, don’t you think? Anyone game to try, or to offer ideas?

It looks like people have various uses for them.

http://www.3viewpvr.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=150

According to the forum on the linked page it’s MIPS so no RISC OS capability unfortunately.

According to the forum on the linked page it’s MIPS so no RISC OS capability unfortunately.

So it’s more RISC/os than RISC OS. ;-)