[mythtv-users] mythtv for the non-techies

[Pat Pierce]

If you have your own setup that you can use as a test bed.
If you can setup an ssh connection into the box across the internet.
If you feel confident you can talk them through any hardware
issues that come up. If you feel like dealing with it ;)

IMO, there are very few people who I would do that for... if my
parents asked me to do this, I would ask them if they were willing
to learn.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> My parents, who are computer literate but technically ignorant, have had
> it with the broken commercial players out there.  They asked me how I
> deal with it and I said, Myth.
>
> Now they want to know if they can have myth...
>
> We're 3,000 miles apart, so no weekend visits to fix things.  I'm a bit
> leery of setting up a myth system that far away.
>
> Is anyone doing anything like this?
>
> This would be a combined FE/BE, plugged into a TV on one end and
> probably a STB cable box on the other.  I think they have comcast.
>
> Should I even attempt this?  Or should I run?  Suggestions?
>
> --Yan
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