<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Matt Emmott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Steven Adeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
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<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/ubuntu-tv-making-its-debut-at-ces/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/ubuntu-tv-making-its-debut-at-ces/</a><br>
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some very nice interface ideas. I'm wondering if these things could be<br>
done in MythTV with the current theme abilities?<br>
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--<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I just came in to see if anybody had posted about this yet - What's the underlying tuning technology? Is it MythTV or did Canonical roll their own? </div></div>
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What about MythTV and XBMC?</h3></blockquote><div>According to Ubuntu's website here: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors">http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors</a> </div><div>They are working with Mythtv and xbmc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Very interesting. Can any Dev's weigh in on this?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Below text pasted from <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors">http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors</a> </div>
<div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.4">Myth TV and XBMC are popular open-source TV projects, particularly in the Ubuntu community. We’re very pleased to collaborate with members of both communities, enhancing the quality of back-end code that is shared between projects.</span><br>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.4">Our focus is to bring a Unity front end to the TV, suitably adapted to the entertainment, lean-back experience of the living room, but there are plenty of areas where our needs intersect perfectly with those of other communities.</span><br>
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Any improvements or changes we make to either project are contributed back. And we welcome contributions from both communities.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:300px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1.4;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.4">------------------------------------------------</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:300px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1.4;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.4">Is this just a different front-end using a myth-tv backend for the recordings?</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:300px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1.4;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif">
Jeremy</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:300px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1.4;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif">
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