[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Windows Media Center

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 23:09:50 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Justin Johnson
<justin.johnson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
>>
>> I like to tell people --- "It's TV, not the end of the world. You'll live
>> without... and have more money in your pocket."
>>
>
> But it seems like I'm constantly spending money on methods to
> circumvent DRM so that I can use mythTv...

I must say that I live in an area where there are basically three
choices for TV:

1. Unencrypted Freeview (freeviewnz.tv) which myth can handle fine;

2. SkyTV which has most of what freeview has plus a whole lot more,
but is encrypted. I could pay for a subscription and use the analogue
hole (pvr150 or hdpvr). However I choose not to (I can't watch
everything I record from freeview anyway). If I was a big sports fan i
would have to, as they have almost a monopoly on most big sporting
events.

3. Analogue, which is pretty well a subset of what's on freeview, and
which I discount when I have such easy access to freview. It'll also
go away eventually.

In short, in my market, you can get a whole lot of TV unencrypted and
I feel sorry for people in other markets that seem to be getting more
and more bogged down by encryption. It seems that week after week in
the US we are seeing the digital switch being used as an excuse or
background to locking more and more people out of watching even pretty
basic programming, without getting some provider's STB.


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list