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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Maybr a good idea is like what the pc
magazine do; What hardware would you buy if you wanted to spend $2,000, $1,000
and $500 on a MythTV solution and then update this “pricepoint
configuration” every 6 months or so as technology changed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Indulis Bernsteins<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 10, 2010 1:12 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] Goals
and Aspirations of MythTV</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
As for making myth run for your country of choice:</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> All you need is to configure the program for
your language preference.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> Capturing is done by the capture device you
chose which also should have</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> been chosen for your specific needs</font></tt></span></font>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>As Bill
Wobblestick would say "aye, and there's the rub!".</span></font></tt>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>As someone
who has built a couple of Mythtv systems over the years, the remaining awful,
risky, painful, tedious, "must-be-a-tech-geek" area is finding a
tuner card that works. I'm talking DVB-T here folks, not analog inputs.</span></font></tt>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>If you look
at LinuxTV and Mythtv and other wikis there is lots of great information about
tuners that you can no longer buy, or are PCI when your system only has PCI-E
slots. TO find out about actual support you need to delve into the
linuxtv mailing lists, and/or read the source code for comments like "Scumby
XYZ tuner (revision E) is now supported, revision F sold in the same packaging
and indistinguishable from revision E until you plug it onto your system is not
now, and never will be supported".</span></font></tt> <br>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The mythtv
developers have done a great job to make mythtv reasonably simple to implement,
and can't be blamed for the tuner fiasco we see now. Proprietary chips,
internal changes to tuners where chipsets are changed with no change in
external name or packaging of the tuner card/USB stick, all these and more are
the blight on the world of Mythtv.</span></font></tt> <br>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I've tried
to do my bit and update the LinuxTV wiki with my experiences, but again the
tuners I have working now are not that accessible or useful (PCI- no longer
sold, USB- one of 2 tuners on the Pinnacle USB stick works).</span></font></tt>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Maybe we
should approach one of the smaller manufacturers to get some "certified
for Mythtv" cards/USB sticks. If all Mythtv users used just that
product it might be enough quantity to get their interest.</span></font></tt> <br>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Maybe Mythtv
needs a "report my installation" which would (say) every 6 months ask
you if it can send back a snapshot of the tuner cards in people's systems, as
well as giving us an idea of the # of mythtv users in various countries.
WIth some real number then we might be able to make a case to hardware manufacturers.</span></font></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
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