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

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Wed Jul 15 15:46:59 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:52:22PM +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 2009/7/2 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> 
> > I completely disagree.  Sport and news broadcasts should also be recorded.
> >  "But," people say, "It makes no sense to record the news--it's not like
> > I'll care about it next week."  Well, do you schedule your life so that you
> > can start LiveTV exactly when the news show you like comes on?  Then why not
> > schedule MythTV to record your favorite news show(s).  "But then I'll have
> > to delete the old shows!"  No, that's why Myth has the options allowing you
> 
> [great (and very entertaining) post snipped]
> 
> I really enjoyed reading your post here...
> 
> What I'm guessing here is that the reason you don't see the same way
> other people are seeing things (including myself) is that you don't
> have kids ...

I have kids, 3 and 6. There is a frontend in the living room
which is pretty much exclusively for them. 

Nobody in the house watches LiveTV, and the kids don't really
get the concept of commercials. 

I like that a lot.

-dsr-


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