[mythtv-users] Myth Developers ban all use of MythTV as a PVR due to IP infringement?

[Kevin Hulse]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:56:24PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:50:41PM -0400, Nedim Cholich wrote:
> >    I agree and I made similar comment in another thread (for which I
> >    apologize if I offended somebody). But there is another point to be
> >    made here. We might have two camps:
> 
> >    1) People with "production" systems where MythTV is _the_ media
> >    center of the household. It has to be up and it has to be
> >    "correct". For a lot of us it also meant saving $100s a year in
> >    various cable/satellite/bullshit charges, which also meant that
> >    certain discretionary expenses are allowed.
> 
> >    2) People who play with MythTV as their personal toy and haven't
> >    sold the rest of the household on it. Obviously they have to
> >    justify expenses and in this case it really doesn't even make sense
> >    to buy SD subscription. To them I'd say scrape on!
> 
> Ok, excellent point.  Most people with production systems tend
> mercifully to forget the time when they were in beta.  ;-)

     That's where the mental disconnect is coming from. Some of us 
didn't dedicate any extra hardware for this until we were in pre-production.

     Sort of in for a penny in for a pound...