[brlug-general] mythtv box

[-ray]

I justify the money I give to the bad guys with all the music and movies i 
illegally download for free.  So I do my part sticking it to 'da man'.  I 
sleep better at night, and plus i get free stuff. Heh.

Seriously, we all give some money to the bad guys.

ray


On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, willhill wrote:

> I'm not there yet but I'm not likely to give my money to the bad guys when I
> give up.  I'd like to have a video source and library that does not depend on
> some third party's permission scheme.  The problem is digital restrictions
> that should be against the law:
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/20/2322202
>
> The ultimate price is not $5/month, it's technological stagnation.  HDTV today
> reminds me of MTV and the early days of cable TV.  High quality, commercial
> free entertainment did not last many years.  Competition never arrived and
> the broadcasts are hardly better than broadcast used to be.  HDTV today looks
> like a come on to get people hooked into the secure path, and the game is
> rigged.   There are land mines at every step of the way from patents on
> obvious compression routines, DMCA outlawing of DeCSS to civil lawsuits that
> can strip you of everything for "making unauthorized copies".   We should
> stand up to this nonsense now and not give our money to people who have
> trampled our freedoms and will do worse in the future.  If you think you miss
> cable+VHS now, just wait a while.  Big media has done nothing but consolidate
> over the last 40 years.  If you think restrictions on entertainment are bad,
> imagine future libraries ruled by the same greed.
>
> BT878 based cards work well enough but will be increasingly difficult to use.
> I've made 640x480 movies that stand up to SD quality and are good enough for
> entertainment.  CPU hit is not significant on a 1GHz machine, which is modest
> now.  My wife and I mostly watch YouTube and analog DVDs and neither of us
> care about seeing actor's pimples.  The kids get PBS, DVDs and tapes of the
> same.  It would be very easy for us to replace our ancient CRT TV with a
> monitor and PC.  Still, I can see that VHS and DVD have already been
> consigned to oblivion along with analog output that the card requires.
>
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 1:21 pm, -ray wrote:
>> 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.
>
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IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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