[mythtv-users] DPMS and televisions; some useful ideas and a question

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:01, Shawn Willden wrote:
> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> 
> >How about teaching the kids some responsibility to your television, 
> >the 
> >environment and their future and turn the thing off when they are 
> >done 
> >with it?
> >  
> >
> 
> I responded privately to this in some detail.  Publicly I'll just say 
> that while this suggestion is good in theory, and certainly something 
> we  
> attempt to do, anyone who has raised a few children understands that 
> teaching them responsibility is a long, arduous process, and that 
> they'll fail at it innumerable times along the way.
> 
> I prefer not to have my new TV a casualty of their failures, so 
> anything  
> I can do to provide an automated safety net with minimal effort is 
> worthwhile.  There are plenty of other contexts for teaching 
> responsibility. 

Well, I've taught my 3-year-old to turn off the TV... now if only I 
could get my wife to follow suit...

-JAC