[mythtv-users] two and one

Robert Kulagowski rkulagowski at thrupoint.net
Tue May 13 15:46:55 EDT 2003


 
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> 1) I'm curious as to what brings people to try out MythTV.  
> Is it the geeky pleasure of building something oneself?  Is it
> wanting to be  independent from TiVo's feature control or fate?  Is
> it cost?  Is it the  extra features that one can't get from the
> commercial PVRs out there?  

Remember, if you want a Tivo to do everything you can do with Myth,
you've got to add in the cost of the Home Media Option at $99, and
that you're going to need a Series 2 box to do it.  Add in that Tivo
forces things on you like Advertisements on the main menu and that
they disengeniously state that all of the Showcases don't take up
recording space (sure they do - if that space wasn't pre-allocated to
commercials you'd have that much more available for recording.) and
you realize that Tivo can pretty much do what they want.

Want more recording capacity on a Tivo?  Void the warranty and open
the box.  You're still limited to the size of the drive you can
install.  On Myth, just install a new hard drive, add it to your LVM
and expand the partition.  Presto.

Also, unless you specifically call them up and tell them not to, Tivo
is keeping track of every keypress and selling aggregate data to
advertisers.

But that's just me.



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