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

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>:

>> "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.)

I've been running MythTV "in production" since 0.12, about 2003 or so.
It certainly has come a long way, but it's still great.  I couldn't
live without it.  The fact that I can download the videos to my laptop
when I'm on the road for extended periods of time makes it even nicer!

I plan to work on a new Myth system in January to connect to an HDTV,
so I don't have any HD experience, yet.  But the SD experience is
quite positive.  I have 4 tuner cards (All PVRs) so I (almost) never
miss a show.  The remote works as expected.  The only issue is that sometimes
you just have to be a little patient.

Down the road I plan to move the MySQL server off to another machine
and add a second Myth Backend server to record my HD programs.  I'm
hoping that this will improve the experience.  We shall see.

But I've got nothing but good things to say about it..  And as everyone
else has said, having a DVR will totally change the way you watch TV.

>  Hrmmm.
>
> -- Ben

-derek

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