[mythtv-users] It's not the TiVo that she loved...
Ivan Kowalenko
ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 03:55:27 UTC 2006
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On Apr 11, 2006, at 19.45, Ryan Pisani wrote:
>> Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> On 4/5/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My wife has dealt with my MythTV tinkering for about 8 months.
>>>>> she
>>>>> has
>>>>> sat in bed with the RF keyboard to watch TV, and steadily
>>>>> reminded me
>>>>> that "The TiVo wasn't that bad." She kept saying the shes
>>>>> misses the
>>>>> TiVo, so I gave up on trying to install the free Dell USB remote
>>>>> that I
>>>>> stumbled upon, and ordered an ir receiver from http://
>>>>> irblaster.info
>>>>> last night I got it installed and setup the TiVo remote to control
>>>>> MythTV.
>>>>>
>>>>> Turns out that all she missed was the remote.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is a pretty good remote. Nice shape and balance. Decent
>>>>> simplicity,
>>>>> yet enough buttons to do everything.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I always liked the TiVi "dogbone" shape.
>>>>
>>>> Does your wife miss the $12.95/month bill ??
>>>>
>>>
>>> not as much as the $2000 spent on Myth... (well, whatever amount...
>>> lump some payments always seem like more than monthly ones).
Actually, unless you're keeping your TiVo for 12.9 years, your Myth
system was more than your monthly fee for TiVo.
I managed to build my Myth system for $275 ($400, if you count the
hardware I already owned):
$75 for a Celeron 600 box (back end)
$100 for improving and expanding my wired network infrastructure
$100 for a PVR-150
$129 for an XBox (I already owned this, and built my system around it)
>>>
>>
>> hear hear. MythTV only makes sense as a hobby or if you need the
>> added
>> functionality/disk space.
>> Tivo is cheaper (and probably easier to use and possibly more
>> reliable)
>> by far. I suspect that might
>> change as time marches on though.
>>
>
>
> What! Mythtv has so many other features that make it well worth the
> higher
> off the ground cost.
I dunno. My Myth system seems very intimidating to the rest of my
family. Sometimes I think they would get more use out of a TiVo, or
the ComCast DVR.
> The video manager and the ability to play all types
> of compressed formats on the TV is priceless in my opinion.
Actually, I HATE the video manager. I don't want a video MANAGER. I
think that XBMC makes a far better multimedia player than what MythTV
currently has installed. I reboot my XBox for watching non-Myth
videos all the time. I'd love to see a similar video manager
implemented into MythTV. Or something like XBMC's web interface.
> Also the
> ability to export / compress & burn in one unit. All top notch
> qualities.
Ahh, true. A very nice feature. TiVo can do that too, depending on
the TiVo unit you buy.
But, don't get me wrong, I love MythTV. I wouldn't have bought a
TiVo, even if my cable company was offering some kind of special with
it. So that "well worth the higher off the ground" cost is very
subjective. For me, $2000 is far too much. For my family, this Myth
system would be the same. I just feel that this is all subjective,
and that someone should point that out.
>
> Ryan Pisani
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