[mythtv-users] Suppliment Tivo with MythTV?

[Joe Hickey]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Steve Wahl <steve at pro-ns.net> wrote:
> I currently have a TiVo HD, recording over the air HD content.  Output
> to an analog NTSC video modulator so all TVs in the house can watch
> the tivo content on channel 63.  However, it's not HD and as we look
> at upgrading our TVs, simply replacing the NTSC analog modulator with
> a HD ATSC video modulator is a expensive proposition.
>
>I'm considering the alternative of automatedly fetching the videos
>from the Tivo to a linux machine, and "inserting" them into a mythTV

Seems like it would be a lot easier and simpler, if your recordings
are OTA, to just to by an HDHomerun, let MythTV record the shows
directly and call it a day.  The scheduler is far better than anything
you get in a Tivo anyway.  Why the extra complication?