[mythtv-users] Best version for DVB-T

[White Joe]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dan Seddon
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:17 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Best version for DVB-T
> 
> James C. Dastrup wrote:
> 
> >>>That said, I'm not a big fan of Live TV these days so it doesn't 
> >>>bother me
> >>>overmuch.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I'm puzzled that anyone would ever watch LiveTV.   Even if you want 
> >>to watch it "as it happens", why not just have it start the 
> recording 
> >>and join a few minutes later?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> > 
> >Sorry, but that is the strangest question I've ever heard. 
> Try that during
> >the next New Year's Celebration, and you'll be lighting off 
> your fireworks 
> >after everyone else has gone to bed.  And, you must not have 
> a wife that is 
> >so excited to watch The Bachelor she can't wait 30 seconds 
> to find out
> >what happens. And what about those people that just like to 
> sit and watch
> >nothing in particular, just to see what's on.  You must have 
> your life so
> >organized compared to the rest of us....
> >
> >  
> >
> I agree here completely.
> 
>  From my point of view it's not just me (as a slightly nerdy 
> bloke who 
> built the system) but my wife and two tenants who watch Mythtv in my 
> flat and if I had to say "sorry you can only watch things you've 
> previously recorded" I'd be fighting quite a lot pressure to 
> bring the 
> old TV back, this idea does also limit it's use to the regular user 
> who's chosen to record those particular programs. There are 
> also a lot 
> of things on the TV and I can't realistically record it all - 
>  so there 
> are many occasions when I get back and see something on TV which I 
> decide to watch and even with the current 6 second delay I do miss 
> channel hopping!
> 
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Watching TV isn't always a planned event.  Weather Channel, school
closings, nightly news/jeopardy during meal prep, MTV, flipping
channels, and it gives the kids something to fight over while I shower.