Tivo vs MythTV (was: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....)

[Ben Scott]

On 11/7/06, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
>>  Those of you here who are already using MythTV, how do you find it
>> works in day-to-day usage?
>
> Like I hear from my Tivo friends, "It will change your life."

  Absolutely.  The thought of TV without a good DVR is totally
unacceptable to me now.

> ... I installed a PVR-150mce ...

  That card is capture only, right?  So the TV/monitor will need VGA
in, or the computer will need TV-video out, I take it?

> "It Just Works" to coin a phrase. Or it doesn't. X-Files on Turner
> record fine, on Sci-Fi, they never do, so perhaps I have a setup
> error. But mostly it just works.

  Hrmmm.  It's the "mostly" that concerns me.  :)

  The screen shots on http://www.mythtv.org/ look *very* impressive.
It's come a *long* way since I looked at it last.  (Which was quite
some time ago.)

  Hrmmm.

-- Ben