[mythtv-users] why you use myth...like myth, or hate Microsoft
Mike Perkins
mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Sun Mar 2 18:14:27 UTC 2008
Sam Logen wrote:
>
> Try this: I can build a skeleton system with minimal
> software and have it act as a dedicated pvr with
> multiple uses, ultraconvenient interface, software
> optimized to run on the hardware I installed, and all
> without paying for tivo + tivo subscriptions, or
> microsoft's $200+ software.
>
This should be option 4, and what got me using Myth: it's the cheapest solution
to having a PVR, if you already have a bucket of parts around as most of us seem to.
I developed using Microsoft tools for 20-ish years (yes, really), and eventually
got turned off them when they became a marketing organisation instead of a
technical one. The products they peddled got sufficiently poor and
unneccessarily complicated that in the end I just said no. These days I wouldn't
touch *anything* using Microsoft software (their mice are OK though, can't say
as to the MCE remote, etc). All this happened long before I ever heard of Myth,
and before I realised we needed such a system.
Mike Perkins
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