[mythtv-users] Several General Questions

[Ian Forde]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 23:27 -0700, match at ece.utah.edu wrote:
> After all, what's the goal here? If you want to make your Linux box do something that 
> we geeks think is really, really cool, I can't think of anything cooler than MythTV. But 
> it won't impress your girlfriend, and if you just want to watch TV and record some 
> shows, maybe skip some commercials, it's pretty hard to hose-up a TiVo.

Heh.  I've had my Tivo go belly-up quite a few times.  When the original
hard drive started failing, it would occasionally green-screen.  Then
one day it just out-and-out died. ;)

And short of switching into geek mode, there was *NOTHING* I could do.

(It goes without saying that I went into geek mode and pulled the hard
drive, replacing the original 30GB model with a 120GB model that's still
in there today, 2 years later.)

	-I