[mythtv-users] Sell mythtv "set-top" boxes

[Pete Hartman]

At 08:35 AM 6/2/03 -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>1. There is already a database of hardware/software configurations 
>available. It's listed somewhere in the Myth HowTo, and a message here 
>referenced it sometime in the past couple of days. Its format does not 
>include everything I'd like to see, but is it were used more (that is, if 
>more people put *in* their data), its usefulness would improve.

I would disagree completely.

There is a database of EVERY hardware config possible, with people's 
subjective levels of satisfaction.

While this information is somewhat helpful, it is not remotely similar to a 
"recommended hardware list" where there is a single config or a couple of 
configs that is/are known and shown by several people to work.  The 
impression I got from reading the database was that

1) each configuration listed is slightly different from every other
and
2) the "satisfaction" level for configurations that were to my reading 
extremely similar was widely divergent.

Unfortunately I seem unable to connect to goldfish.org right now to give 
concrete examples.  Suffice to say that while it gives some outer boundary 
ideas of what configs to use, it's nowhere near as helpful for someone who 
isn't spending all their time hacking on this to "just do it".  If I ever 
get my config working (many other distractions around the house) I plan to 
document my process, my working config, and a way to reconfigure it from 
scratch--both as an aid to others, and so that I have a disaster recovery 
plan :-).  Jeff C did a great job starting this for a PVR-250 user, and I 
plan to follow something much like his format.