<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:migmog@gmail.com">migmog@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 19/11/06, Ben Edwards (lists) <<a href="mailto:lists@videonetwork.org">lists@videonetwork.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> One of the factors may be that set-top boxes are cheep as chips (at<br>> least in the UK) and offer more functionality so getting one and using
<br>> MythTV for recording is a very viable solution.<br>><br><br>Ben, you're right. I've got a freeview box for live TV, and we use the<br>myth box as a glorified VCR. This is something myth is excellent at,<br>especially with the web interface.
<br><br>However, we are missing out on the whole pause/rewind live tv thing,<br>plus there's yet another box of tricks under the TV taking up space<br>and consuming power. And another remote control to lose or another set
<br>of buttons to program into your uber-remote. Wouldn't it be much<br>simpler if myth could do live tv to everyone's satisfaction? It is<br>meant to be the mythical convergence box after all :-)<br><br>I just tried live tv (UK, DVB-T, separate low oomph front and back end
<br>boxes running svn from some time after 0.19) and myth takes something<br>between 8 and 12 secs to change channels, which pretty much makes it<br>unusable. Browse mode is a kludge to make the best of a poor<br>situation.
<br></blockquote></div><br>Hmm, I had a satellite dish for 10 years and it took longer than that to switch channels so I would definitely not call this unusable. <br><br>John<br>