[mythtv-users] What's the point of MythTV HD?

[Alan Murrell]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 19:45:05 Steve MacLaren wrote:
> 4) instead of paying your cable co for a digital STB+ HD "package" +
> premium channel "packages" + HD PVR with crippled hardware and software,
> pay a small fraction of that to Netflix and get your premium shows & movies
> that way.  I pay Commucast $14/month (4 networks in HD, plus 5 PBS channels
> including PBS HD) and Netflix $20.  We'll get sent a whole season of
> something on DVDs, load it into Mythvideo, watch it at our leisure, and
> send the DVDs back for something else the next day.

or 5) download the tv episode(s) the next day via torrents, which are mostly 
recorded in HD anyway.  I have several friends who haven't actually had cable 
in a couple of years and actually download the TV shows they want to watch 
from torrent sites.

-Alan M.