I'm sure you'll be getting lots of useful replies; hopefully I'm not being completely redundant...<br><br>On 10/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Meeks</b> <<a href="mailto:jmeeks@permacrete.com">jmeeks@permacrete.com
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Can MythTV record as many as 4 shows one of which may be HD.?</span></font>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What about playback or recording and watching the same show?</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>The short answer is yes, MythTV can do it. It can record as many programs as you have tuners, disk space and I/O bandwidth to store. HD is currently a problem for many people. There aren't any easy solutions for recording HD except from over-the-air broadcasts. Some people have success with HD cable boxes with firewire ports, but it depends on the cable company - some companies turn off firewire access for some or all their channels. There is a grey-market product sold by
<a href="http://www.169time.com">www.169time.com</a> that purports to allow firewire recording from DirecTV boxes, but MythTV has no official integration with it.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Do I need a frontend for each TV, or could we have one big
backend with multiple tuners that could be controlled with remotes?</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Um... yes. The usual way MythTV is deployed is to have a frontend computer directly connected to each television, and they all talk to the master backend machine (where all the tuners are located) over the network. The backend process can run on one of the frontend machines, but dosen't have to, and you can have multiple backends if your disk space or I/O needs require it.
<br><br>For example, I have 4 different computers running the frontend program (2 connected to TVs, a laptop and a desktop computer), and a single computer running the backend with 3 tuners and lots of disk space in a closet in the basement. It's all connected with 100meg ethernet.
<br><br>Let me know if you have any other questions about it.<br><br>-- Tony <a href="mailto:brummett@gmail.com">brummett@gmail.com</a><br></div><br></div>