On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/09/2007 03:28 PM, Mike Dodge wrote:<br>> On 10/9/07, Josh White <<a href="mailto:jaw1959@gmail.com">jaw1959@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> On 10/9/07, Mike Dodge <<a href="mailto:dmikester1@gmail.com">
dmikester1@gmail.com</a> > wrote:<br>>>> I do not currently have MythTV nor will I have the funds or time for it<br>>>> until at least a year or two. I am getting married in less than a year,<br>>>> which is sucking up both the money and the time. I downloaded a cool MythTV
<br>>>> wallpaper with what looks like a wall of programs being shown, like you saw<br>>>> in one of the Matrix movies. Is this even possible with MythTV? Do you<br>>>> need one tuner card per program to display at any one time?
<br>>> To answer your first question: no. To answer you second question: yes.<br>> Thanks for the quick answers. OK, so if I built a computer with 4 tuners in<br>> it, could I set it up to be watching four different channels at the same
<br>> time in the four quadrants of the same screen?<br><br>Please, everybody, no top-posting (<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List_etiquette">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List_etiquette
</a> ). I fixed<br>it this time ("Everybody gets one. Tell them, Peter.").<br><br>Stanley Kamithi is working on "Picture by Picture" support, so--rather<br>than playing back one show in a small window in one corner of the screen
<br>while watching something else--you can play back two shows side-by-side<br>(i.e. ideal for 4:3 content on a 16:9 screen). But, more than two just<br>isn't feasible.<br><br>Personally, though, I don't understand the idea. After all, you can
<br>only listen to one and--if it's really worth watching--why not watch<br>it? And, before you say, "Commercials," Myth is a PVR, so why even<br>watch LiveTV? Record a show and use the commercial flags to skip
<br>commercials. I see this (or, worse, the wall of videos) as nothing more<br>than a, "See how cool this (useless) feature is. I'll bet your TiVo<br>can't do that," kind of capability. But, to each his own. :)
<br><br>If you really want a wall of videos, get yourself 25 MythTV frontends<br>and 25 displays and you're all set.<br><br>Mike</blockquote><div><br><br>Sorry Mike, Gmail automatically does that when I go to "reply".
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