[mythtv-users] Changing Tuners

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 13:38:37 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> Bill White <raygions at yahoo.com> says:
>> > Of course, the best answer as we all know is to stop using LiveTV
>> > and just watch what's been recorded. ;)
>>
>> Mindless 2am channel surfing requires live TV :-)
>
> My MythWeb says:
>
>   1110 programs, using 7.8 TB (2 months 5 days 15 hrs 35 mins) out of
>   9.2 TB (1004 GB free).
>
> I have never, ever felt the need to surf live TV.
>
> Yes, my system is an extreme case. Storage is so cheap nowadays,
> though, that there's no reason why any MythTV setup can't have, say,
> 500GB of space. Even when (like my system) the vast majority of the
> recordings are in high definition, that's still a good ~100 hours of
> recordings. I never felt the need to surf live TV during the several
> years my TiVo had about that many hours of (standard-definition)
> recordings, either.
>

Must not be married to someone that is at home with a new baby and has
no idea what she wants to watch.  Also must not be sharing two HD
cable boxes over 5 televisions throughout the house.

Face it, folks - people have needs for Live TV.  I really don't
understand people's need to act like those that are using Live TV are
"wrong", because they don't understand's others' needs to use this
feature.

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