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<p>On 23-08-2012 11:10, Nick Rout wrote:</p>
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<pre>On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:16 PM, <<a href="mailto:mikkel@broerne.dk">mikkel@broerne.dk</a>> wrote:</pre>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I thought I would through in my thoughts and the reason why I chose Mythtv. Reasons for me choosing Mythtv: 1) I live in Denmark and have only access to SAT-TV and had a sat-box with buildt in DVR... so a combo of live tv and DVR. 2) I could not watch my shows at the same time as the kids or wife and the other way around. Open war when I wanted to watch sports. 3) I did not want to install full coax cable throughout the house and have sat boxes all over the place. I had gigabit network and wifi. 4) I love the stability and simplicity of linux 5) I am no fan of Microsoft or Apple and fully support open source</blockquote>
<pre>Same for me to all the above ('cept I don't have gigE, but 100 is fine).
But I HAVE trained the family off live tv. The kids often used to ask
"Can you set up X to record, it's on Thursdays on Prime" - once I did
it a few times they learned how to do it and now they do it
themselves.
I really have worked hard on the "don't watch crap just cos it is on,
watch something you like, something we have recorded".
Mind you I was never a channel surfer, always preferred to watch a
whole show, or if I didn't know there was something on I wanted to
watch, do something else. Read a book, go to the pub, go to the art
gallery, visit a friend. I also have a rule against changing the music
half way through a song, at worst you fade it out, otherwise change
the music in a quiet bit!
While I have never had to ban liveTV to change habits, it might be
worth banning yourself from it for a week or two and see how it goes
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">Why is Live-TV essential for for my family 1) bad TV habits - and I say bad because life is too short to spend on ½ a show or mindless reality junk, but then again so is eating at McD's compared to cooking a meal from scratch. I do both so shoot me. 2) Recording everything would call for better organization of the recording i.e. moving movies to MythVideo - Mike you support mythvidexport.py, but I tried and it does not work, which is do to my EPG not being in English (see thread on this topic.) And by the way Mike thanks for the help - you were spot on. 3) WAF 4) The “thrill” of watching sports live is completely removed by watching a recording even a 10 minute delay sucks in my book. I wish I could do some programming at the level all the dev's can. This way I could help improve the organization of recordings. Sadly, as it is now, we have a hard time sifting through all our movies and favorite shows. I cannot imagine also recording stuff that I might like and all the junk my wife and kids watch :-D Currently I am stuck on .24 and based on the dialog in this thread I will be for some time. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote>
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<p>My day-to-day work can be summed up to Change Management. So I will always argue to try a change, but it can not be forced without a risk of it blowing up in your face.</p>
<p>As I tried to write, we record everything of interest - only exception is sports.</p>
<p>We have used it for 1½ year and recorded close to 750 shows</p>
<p>The kids do record, but don't always watch it - there is too much unorganized stuff.</p>
<p>As I see it there is a general need for 1) stable LiveTV + 2) improved interface/organization for recording i.e. moving recordings to Video which is a superb idea, but the method I tried does not work.</p>
<p>What I want to do is</p>
<p>1) always (job queue) move all movies to Video -> does not work</p>
<p>2) have a general rule that records new shows all the time on our most favorite channels (and delete within 24 hours) Allowing users to "time travel" -> the interface is not that good for this purpose.</p>
<p>In general I guess the GUI/OSD is why many users use xbmc as a "frontend"??</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
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