[mythtv-users] MythTV to become obsolete?

[Shay]

At 11:45 AM 9/15/2003, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of John Wells
> > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:31 PM
> > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] MythTV to become obsolete?
> >
> >
> > Great.  I finally get my Myth box working (after dropping $330 for a
> > PVR-250 and PVR-350, $120 for a harddrive), and now I read this about the
> > FCC and opencable.com:
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/1053214&mode=thread&ti
> > d=129&tid=137&tid=188
> >
> > Can someone in the know comment on this?  Does it mean my Myth box will be
> > completely obsolete 1-3 years from now?!?  Should I return the cards while
> > I still can :)?
>
>Shouldn't be a problem... while you may not be able to directly tune digital
>cable if the industrial-political stars don't align, you'll be no worse off
>than you are now (currently you need a set-top box to tune digital cable,
>whether through Myth or your TV).  Or did you think that every TV in a home
>getting digital cable would be rendered obsolete also?

Eventually they will force us to buy an Analog box to convert the digital 
so that our apparently ancient tv's can view them, instead of broadcasting 
both Analog and Digital..  We'll also have to buy one for each card we have 
in the MythTV, just like cable boxes..  and they'll have banner ads every 5 
minutes on black strips above and below the picture unless you have a 
widescreen, then it actually covers part of the show.  yup..  thats our 
future.. get used to it.. ;)