[mythtv-users] Is mythTV ready for prime time?

[Mark L. Cukier]

There will allways be programming information available.... whether or 
not it remains FREE is another story alltogether.

That being said, I would doubt that information such as this will be 
diappearing anytime soon....

- Mark

Cory Papenfuss wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Carrison, Stuart wrote:
>
>> Some folks made it in their spare time - and considering this, it 
>> ain't *that* hard to get going - they made it pretty easy as long as 
>> you've got hardware that's supported by Linux n' IVTV. I considered 
>> myself a Linux noob a month ago, after cobling together some decent 
>> hardware and recycling some more I've got a great system the wife, 
>> kids and I get along with fine.
>>
>     Most of the issues people are having are not inherently MythTV 
> related.  They're either linux configuration/driver issues, or stem 
> from the fact that linux isn't a realtime (soft or hard) OS.  Also, a 
> lot of the teething pains come from the fact that it *is* so 
> configurable.  Think about it... yes, getting the remote to work is a 
> PITA.  The beauty of it is you don't have to buy and use the "MythTV 
> model RV-101" remote... just about anything will work.
>
>> Is MythTV ready for the prime time - no, probably not. Why? Because 
>> it's home-brew, there's no gigantic software company behind it with 
>> 24/7 support, buckets of money to pay Mr Wilson with etc. But of 
>> course if Myth sold out to some nasty software company we'd loose all 
>> the flexibility we have in the system at the moment.
>>
>     The beauty of GPL is that we don't have to worry about that 
> happening.  A company might use MythTV as a basis for a product and 
> sell that product and the *support* of it, but the code source must 
> always be published.
>
>> But on the other hand, there's no subscription fees and once you get 
>> it going _properly_ it's as solid as a rock and can do more than any 
>> Tivo, XP MCE or 'other' home brew PVR I've ever seen. You need to 
>> take your time with the set-up (especially adding all those cable 
>> channels, *groan*).
>>
>     Let's hope the likes of Zap2It continue the service.  Without 
> programming info to beg/borrow/steal, MythTV becomes a fancy, 
> expensive VCR.
>
> -Cory
>
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> * Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
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