[brlug-general] mythtv box

[James Kuhns]

I fully agree, it was fun and informative playing with the hardware/software
but in the end, I realized the time/money I was spending reinventing the
wheel was costing me more than the 5-10 bucks a month it costs for an
off-the-shelf box that already did what I wanted.

Now, if DirectTV would just pick up my locals in HD I could dump our COX
cable package.

James

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From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf
Of -ray
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:22 PM
To: general at brlug.net
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mythtv box

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, James Kuhns wrote:

> I gave up on capturing TV on a PC - I've tried MythTV, MS Media Center,
and
> SageTV with different capture cards - none looked as good as the boxes
from
> my sat and cable provider. The only thing I use my HTPCs for is to
> watch/listen to the DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray/CD collection stored on my media
> server, granted this is enough, just the ability to pick a movie from the
> menu without having to hunt the disk down is great.

I'm in the same boat.  I gave up on MythTV/SageTV/BeyondTV/etc.  Maybe i'm 
getting old.  Tinkering with the hardware/software is fun, and you learn a 
lot.  But at the end of the day, I just want to watch TV.  The Tivo 
hardware is cheap, the software works, and the $10/month is worth it to 
me.

ray
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