Is there a such thing as subscribing to a type of programming to record?

[Bob Ghengis Khan]

I hope I'm making sense with this - Is there a such thing as subscribing to a type of programming to record?

What I'm trying to do is setup a HTPC system (before I leave overseas in August) to record all of the Gator and Jaguar games I'll miss on deployment.

I have never used any PVRs, and I dont know how capable the "intelligent recording" is. I see various PVR software support setting up recording remotely from another computer over the internet, but I wont always be able to get setup in time (because of my job)

Are there any programs out there that let you subscribe to another users' recording choices, so that say a football team (or another fan) could have a web script you send your PVR to monitor to record all of their games? I only wish I was a decent programmer so that I could set this up on one of the open source PVR suites, it doesnt seem tremendously difficult (compared to say, analyzing what they've viewed in the past to come up with accurate similar interests)

 

[mshan]

You could get a Slingbox and control and watch your receiver over the internet on your laptop.

Could also get a TIVO, though you have to pay a monthly subscription for that.

 

[Reel]

If you install MythTV, they have a plugin called MythWeb that allows you to set recordings over the web. You could have a buddy set them for you. Reference: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythWeb

While that doesn't get it all the way, you could have someone concoct a script that will export all sports events from the database of your buddy, copy the file to your setup, then import them. I believe that sequence of events would work well if you are on the same cable system. If you are not, I am not quite sure.

You might also be able to create a script that will go through the listings downloaded and search for Jaguars Football and Gators Football and add them to the record list. With this method, you'd run the risk of getting random related shows or classic games but you could always purge them manually later.

Go Gators.