[mythtv-users] two and one

[Nathan Smith]

It's the journey, not the destination.  I would wager few people ever stop
"tweaking" their machine an use it like an appliance the Tivo is.  Anyone
feel differently?


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hirsch [mailto:mythtv at quakerporn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:51 PM
To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] two and one


Hey, folks.  I have a couple of non-technical questions and one technical
question, being new to the list.

The non-technical questions first, I suppose.

1) I'm curious as to what brings people to try out MythTV.  Is it the geeky
pleasure of building something oneself?  Is it wanting to be independent
from TiVo's feature control or fate?  Is it cost?  Is it the extra features
that one can't get from the commercial PVRs out there?

Spec'ing out a Athlon/shuttle/WinTV-PVR/IR box, I can't quite seem to make
it cost less than a TiVo + a year's service, so I'm trying to figure out
why it's still really alluring to me to try building one.  Figured asking
why it's alluring to other people might help illustrate it.  



Thanks,

Adam