<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 July 2010 23:06, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
there have been threads before over the years about "let's make/design<br>
a consumer level mythtv box". They usually founder on the fact that<br>
everyone wants different things in their myth machine, and that you'll<br>
never make something cheaper than the consumer electronics<br>
manufacturers can!<br></blockquote></div><br>This issue is addressed by having one designer with specific goals in mind, and I suspect to create a true consumer class device also forking from MythTV, which might not be as bad as it first sounds so long as the designer of such a box was submitting patches back to MythTV and then from time to time, dropping their own branch, rebranching MythTV and then applying patches to bring this "new" branch back to the place they needed for their device, chosen interface, chosen feature set. Much as Ubuntu do the above described process each 6 months with Debian.<br>
<br>However, that's no small commitment and someone would have to be sure they could build a viable business model around it, whilst not being better served by just going down the exist consumer class devices route.<br>
<br>It might be that "Another Sillyname" actually has identified a niche best addressed by a project like this, but I don't envy him bringing it to fruition.<br><br>Jason<br><br><br>