[mythtv-users] Ok Backend seems worked out, in my head -- just a couple more frontend questions

[David Frascone]

Chris Funk wrote:
>
> I hear you on the Sopranos, Entourage thing.  Somtimes I wish I had 
> never gotten HD, then at least I wouldn't know what I was missing.
>
> To be honest with you, my wife asks me all the time why we don't just 
> use the comcast dvr rather than myth.  I don't have a good answer for 
> her. (but I never seem to anyway so that is nothing new) :-)   I could 
> go on and on and tell her about how with myth I have control over the 
> system and we can store x times as many shows and we have a 
> video/audio/picture jukebox with it and commercial skip etc etc.  But 
> all she has to do is say ok, let's watch last weeks Entourage in HD.  
> Dang, she wins again. :-)
>
> I started off using myth simply to store dvd's from netflix, (of 
> course deleteing them after they had been watched) Don't think that is 
> any less illegal however. then got firewire working with the dct6200, 
> then got a pvr-500.  I just really enjoy tinkering with it.  I think 
> Myth is a great product and the devs and packagers and all other 
> contributers have done an incredible job getting it to where it is 
> today. In the end however it may just come back to "ok, let's watch 
> last weeks Entourage in HD", which as you say "comcast and DMCA are 
> making it really hard" to do with Myth.
>
> Sorry, kinda got off on a tangent there.  So no, I guess I don't know 
> of a simplier method.  But if there is one, there are plenty of people 
> on this list that are a lot wiser in the ways of Myth than me.
>
Basically, I'm going to keep my eyes out for good deals on a case & 
capture card.  Then I can just start toying with it.

That alone would eliminate the DVD stuff from my console.

-Dave

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David Frascone

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