[mythtv-users] Monolith Pre-made MythTV Box?

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:23 AM, VCRAddict
<MythTV_01 at appropriate-tech.net> wrote:
> At 03:47 AM 11/16/08 -0800, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
>  >
>    [snip]
>
>  > I was looking around the web for pre-made MythTV box, and came across
>  > the Monolith Media Center...
>  >
>  > https://monolithmc.com/~monolith/index.php
>  >
>  > Does anyone have any experience with this company?  Anyone bought one
>  > of these?
>
> I've no experience or prior knowledge of that particular outfit.  But my
> first reaction is that the product is obscenely overpriced, vis-a-vis what
> you could build an equivalent system for yourself, if you're of a mind to
> do that.
>
> Now, presuming that you're NOT of a mind to do that, then most of what
> you'd be paying for is ongoing support & "hand-holding"...  And I did not
> see anything I consider worth that difference in my quick perusal of their
> web site (an online BBS-based "support ticket" system doesn't really count,
> at least in the absence of any evidece regarding how quickly and
> effectively they respond -- I'm talking about something along the lines of
> 24/7 toll-free 'phone support).

I don't mind building a system myself... I'm experienced Linux user,
and am comfortable doing things like that.  (I started with Linux
circa 1996.)

I was considering just purchasing a pre-made MythTV box just as a way
of saving time.

(When I was younger I used to enjoy doing everything myself from
scratch.  It's just now, work takes up alot of my time.)

But given the reactions on many of the people who replied to my
e-mail, perhaps I should put a little more thought into building one
myself.

--
Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
http://changelog.ca/