[mythtv-users] What's the point of MythTV HD?

[Yan Seiner]

Steve MacLaren wrote:
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> 4) instead of paying your cable co for a digital STB+ HD "package" + 
> premium channel "packages" + HD PVR with crippled hardware and 
> software, pay a small fraction of that to Netflix and get your premium 
> shows & movies that way.  I pay Commucast $14/month (4 networks in HD, 
> plus 5 PBS channels including PBS HD) and Netflix $20.  We'll get sent 
> a whole season of something on DVDs, load it into Mythvideo, watch it 
> at our leisure, and send the DVDs back for something else the next day.

We're lucky.... When a local DVD rental place shut down, the public 
library bought their collection of DVDs.  Now we can go the library and 
borrow a DVD....

As for the other stuff, we only get OTA stuff.  Between free movies and 
free PBS-HD, I've got as much TV as I can watch.

--Yan