[mythtv-users] The REAL test of Myth

[Dan Berger]

Lol, "The System"

My friends and girlfriend call it tivo (it hurts my ears everytime they say
it)

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>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:11 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] The REAL test of Myth
>
>On Wednesday 28 January 2004 08:37, Richie Jarvis wrote:
>> Michael Starks wrote:
>> > As others have noted it is Girlfriend Acceptance (or Approval) 
>> > Factor. The first time I sat her down to show her what we could do 
>> > with live TV it froze up after about 10 seconds.  It just happened 
>> > to freeze on a frame of a sexy model with really big, ahem... baby 
>> > feeders.  She looked over at me and without saying a word 
>I knew the 
>> > two things that look meant:
>> >
>> > 1.  The TV never had to be rebooted before.  The TV has never 
>> > crashed. 2.  I must have somehow planned the freeze at that 
>> > particular fraction of a second for my manly entertainment.
>>
>> Excellant!!! I know exactly what you mean....
>>
>> My own personal struggle with WAF and KAF (kid acceptance 
>factor) are 
>> numerous.  Myth is increasing stable in my house (which is very nice)
>> - but stupid things like conflict resolution and recording 
>priorities 
>> are currently beyond the users :(  This means I get glares 
>of varying 
>> quality caused by such simple things as Eastenders not being 
>recorded 
>> because Crafty Tricks of War is on....
>>
>> Ah well - I guess the sooner I get that second backend up 
>and running 
>> with another tuner card, the better :)
>>
>> Still - at least they r using it!
>
>My wife enjoys it, especially MythMusic and MythVideo.  She 
>only watches recorded TV if I 'drive', and hasn't quite worked 
>up the courage to schedule her own recordings.
>
>I have a 2-year-old and a  4-year-old, and they *love* 
>MythVideo.  I have a whole directory of children's videos that 
>they watch.  My family refers to my Myth setup as "the 
>System", and it's very amusing when the kids have a play date 
>at someone else's house and the parents put on a video for the 
>kids... my girls say "oh, we love this movie, we have it on 
>the System!"... which produces blank stares from the other parents... 
>
>Some of my other friends jokingly refer to my Myth setup as "TiJoe" :-)
>
>-JAC
>
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