Hmm. It doesn't sound like it will work too well for me, if it takes 3 hours to get a 30 minute show at 256kb - based on that, I assume it is using MPEG2. I've got 12mbit down / 1 mbit up on my connection, but they only have 512k down / 256k up on theirs.

Is there any similar sort of system that would do MPEG4, which would hopefully allow for acceptable quality at smaller file sizes? Preferrable a system that I could plug in and forget as my parents are not technical at all.