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>
>  Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source
> software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get
> and what software works with it?

Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and 
has a lot of nice functionality. It is in FreeBSD ports too.

-Sean