[mythtv-users] Is it going to get harder and harder to get the content we want in MythTV?

[John P Poet]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Allen Edwards
<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Easy for me to say because I have a good antenna and can get the
> stations, but switching to OTA seems like a solution to the problem
> you outline.  About 7% of the population gets TV OTA so there are a
> ton of people who can get OTA but use cable.   That must apply to a
> lot of mythTV users.  I canceled my Dish Networks when I got MythTv
> working.  No regrets.
>
> We miss FoodTV but America's test kitchen is really good.  I would
> miss The Daily Show, but you can get it online.
>
> What we need is better integration of online content into MythTV.
> Then more and more people will say goodbye and good riddens to Cable
>
> Allen
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> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Johnny Russ <jruss at mit.edu> wrote:
>> The recent posts about Blu-ray, and this announcement today from Microsoft
>> (Microsoft PBDA platform), bring up the ominous feeling I have had for some
>> time that it is going to get more and more difficult to get the content I
>> want in MythTV. I quote from the link:
>>
>> "In short, this system enables the "PC-TV hardware ecosystem to integrate
>> virtually any free or premium TV service into Windows Media Center," which
>> keeps content guardians ultra-stoked while giving consumers more choice when
>> it comes to TV tuning. Essentially, PBDA gives OEMs and tuner-makers the
>> ability to develop and ship wares for WMC "regardless of geographic location
>> or television standard."
>>
>> I would rather not have the discussion turn into a Microsoft bashing
>> session, but I would rather like to know where people see MythTV going over
>> the next 10 or 15 years as the platforms for TV distribution go through the
>> changes we see coming. It seems to me that, excluding OTA content, all the
>> rest of the content is heading into protected, encrypted platforms. I have
>> never been pleased with the setup of recieving a digital signal, then
>> letting the cable box decode that to an analog signal, just so I can
>> re-encode it again. But it seems like even that will become more
>> problematic, rather than easier, as things move forward. Are MythTV users
>> always going to be stuck hacking various devices to get something half way
>> decent? Or is there any hope that MythTV could integrate into one of these
>> new delivery systems like Tru2Way, one of these MS PBDA cards, or whatever
>> it is that comes along?


http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/HDPVR


John
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