[mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)

[Brad Templeton]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:39:24PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Harry Orenstein wrote:
> 
> > The real question is: if Isaac posts version 0.17 on Friday or Saturday (or
> > even early on Sunday) how many people will risk the upgrade and take the
> > chance that they won't be able to record the Super Bowl (and all those new
> > and innovative commercials)?    ;-)
> 
> Some of us have no great desire to watch other people play games.
> 

I will be using Mythtv version 0.17 for my 3rd annual Superbowl commercials
party.   Last 2 years it was the TIvo, this year it's HD.

At this party, we meet at 3pm and go for a hike while the box records
a couple of hours of game.

Then we come back, watch the football at high speed and slow down to
watch the commercials.

You have to totally reverse your normal remote control reflexes!

And it's great fun, and in fact last year I had to have a remote
display and fill two floors of my house with guests, the party has
gotten so popular.


Also, the football is perfectly watchable at the high speed, you can
follow the game, slow down for interesting plays and watch last year's
clutch finish in real time if you timed it perfectly.  Those who don't
want to even see the football game compressed into 30 minutes can socialize
elsewhere in the house.


This year the two floors will have independent control of the stream, which
may be a good thing or may be a bad thing.  The living room will run off
my frontend box, and the backend, which doesn't usually display TV, will
temporarily run a frontend as well.

No easy way to have the two floors in sync with HDTV unless I had an ATSC
transmitter or something like that.   Retransmitting the remote seems
way too risky.