[mythtv-users] Very simple user guide for Myth?

[Richard Thomas]

Exactly. Most of the features you can ignore if you want to but would be 
confusing to someone not used to not having stuff served up on a plate. 
A user guide would serve the triple function of informing the less 
technically inclined how to use the core features, advertising mythtv 
for those who might be interested (softening the learning curve a 
little) and maybe pointing out a few things the more technically 
inclined of us might have missed (like what the watch list is about)*

What might be nicer for mythtv would be to have most of the extras 
turned off by default (not visible in the menus) and have the users 
activate as required with appropriate setup (for example, Netflix is 
switched on in the default Knoppmyth install but not configured and, to 
be honest, I probably won't use it anyway). Course, I have no code to 
contribute so that's definitely only a "nice to have" type thought.

Rich

Mike Dent wrote:
>
> Yes I realise Mythtv is better than many commercial DVR's but some of
> these commercial offerings such as the Sky+ are sooo easy to use that
> hundreds of thousands of housholds have them and pay to use them.
>
> Put the standard MythTV frontend on them and see how popular they are then.?
>
> For me I have no great problem building and using mythtv as it stands,
> that is probably true of 95% of the people on this list but try giving
> it to an 80 year old (or indeed many less tech minded folks) and you
> will get my point :)
>
> Thanks for the comments so far.
>
> Mike
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