[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR will not initially support Linux

[Mitch Gore]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Brett Kosinski <fancypantalons at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >  Hauppauge also knows that Linux users in general, and perhaps Myth
> >  users specifically, are regarded by H'Wood as a "bunch of pirates". I
> >  can certainly understand that they might want to separate themselves
> >  from the Linux effort.
>
> Strange, given that Myth users would, I suspect, want such devices so
> they can record content from their own cable subscriptions, which
> seems to be the exact opposite of what a pirate would do.  After all,
> if I was just one of these pirates, wouldn't I just download the
> content?
>
> Or are you suggesting that people believe Myth users are part of a
> global cabal to illegally distribute HD-quality broadcasts to the
> public?
>
> Brett.
> _______________________________________________
>

More probably the later.  Myth does provide the functionality for pirating
if you want to, commflag, user job to export to xvid, etc.  But so do all
the other PVR's out there.

Mitchell
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