[mythtv-users] DISH Technician

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/23/2008 04:43 PM, James Orr wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> Well the DISH fellow just left. He installed new gear so I can get
>> more HD channels (looking towards the Hauppauge device).
>>
>> I asked him if he'd heard of Myth. He had not.
>>
>> I showed him a little bit of it.
>>
>> He left shaking his head muttering "Wow".
> I had a similar experience with a comcast technician a while back.  This was
> just before comcast offered their own PVRs.  I had to replace one of my
> digital boxes and specifically requested one with a serial port (for channel
> changing).  He brought one, but he'd never had a request like that before
> and was curious why, I told him and he said something along the lines of
> "You know, we're getting our own PVRs soon".  I said "this is better" and
> showed him why.
>
> He left saying he was going to look into installing MythTV himself :).

The repairman who installed a new light engine in my HDTV (under 
warranty) was also duly impressed with MythTV.  He loved that I had over 
400 HDTV shows available to watch on my schedule.

Mike