[mythtv-users] The final word in the Live TV yay-nay debate

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 20 16:44:14 UTC 2006


>Braindead <Braindead at diablops.com> says:
>> For us Myth is a super-duper recording device and we don't miss the
>> few shows we enjoy.. Of course we're borderline dump-TV entirely
>> anyway ;-)
>
>Note the word "few." I think you and Andrew, the Scottish poster who
>mentioned that non-North American MythTV users may use Live TV more
>often than their North American counterparts, have hit on something
>here. Let me share the following from my MythWeb Recorded Programs
>page:
>
>    325 programs, using 1.8 TB (20 days 13 hrs 3 mins) out of 1.8 TB (7.3
>    GB free).
>
>85% of the recordings (consuming 97% of the space) are in high
>definition. My cable package has six high-definition movie channels[1]
>and three high-definition non-movie channels. Through cable and over
>the air I also get affiliates of seven[2] national broadcast networks,
>all of which transmit almost all of their national programs in high
>definition[3]. I'm not including here the more than 20 non-high
>definition movie channels, or the hundreds of other non-HD channels on
>every conceivable subject. With this much content at my instant
>disposal,[4] why would I ever need to turn to Live TV?[5] And,
>conversely, for those benighted non-North Americans who don't have
>access to such a selection (I point to the Finnish poster who said
>that if recording DVB multiplexes simultaneously came along that he'd
>only need three cards to record all the TV available to him),
>paradoxically, lack of choice may very well lead to more channel
>surfing.
>
>Now, can we *please* stop talking about Live TV? Pretty please?

I'm so sorry! If I had realized that the average user has almost 2
terabytes of recordings, I would never have suggested that live TV
is a much-used feature...






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