[mythtv-users] LiveTV conflicts with scheduled recording - despite unused tuners on the same box!

[John Drescher]

> 2009/7/2 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>> Because Myth is meant to record TV, and LiveTV is for people who haven't
>> figured out how to use a DVR.  :)
>
> I think that view of MythTV is very restrictive for no real reasons
> other than LiveTV is really lacking there.
>
> LiveTV isn't implicitly bad, there are many channels where recordings
> make no sense other than watching it live: sport and news channel
> being the 2 most obvious categories.
>

I have actually used the livetv feature for sports more often than any
other sort of programming. I mean this way I can show up 1 hour late
for a 3.5 hour football game and still see the game from the beginning
and miss the highly annoying commercials in the process.

John