While looking for a converter box for my old TV I stumbled upon a DVR for analog TV's made by ChannelMaster. It has a built-in tuner and if I remember correctly, can record two shows at once. Might be an option...

I'm kind of new to this whole Java thing but there is a readLine() method on BufferedReader. How about something like this? ISO-8859 is a standard 8 bit character encoding so you shouldn't have problems reading the file. String line; BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName)); while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { // do stuff with line } br.close();