[mythtv-users] Advice on Building a Quiet MythTV Box?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 2:18 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:

> migmog wrote:
>> This all worked very nicely EXCEPT FOR LIVE TV which SUCKED so badly
>> it was unusable. One day the frontend died, so I replaced it with a
>> Topfield commercial PVR which works very well for live TV, but is
>> thoroughly amateur compared to myth for recordings. The back end is
>> still chuntering away recording stuff which I can transfer to the
>> commercial PVR to watch if I want to.
>
> Would be great to automate that: MythTV backend, with PVR playback.
> As you said MythTV wipes the floor with any PVR on recording, but
> PVRs still seem to win in terms of playback quality. Anybody ever
> found a way to make a PVR use a MythTV backend?

My MythTV playback looks so much better than my friend's Comcast DVR  
that I can't even stand watching TV at his house.
If yours is bad, it's because of the hardware or settings you've chosen.

-Brad