[mythtv-users] (US) Dump Comcast for a dish, good Mythtv decision?

[drew einhorn]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Jeff<junk_inbox at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:29 PM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> The annoying things now
>> >> are that sometimes in the middle of a movie airing in the middle of
>> >> the night the box downloads updates and reboots itself.
>> >
>> > That happened to me last night ( around 12:22) with comcast when I was
>> > watching a movie. The frustration is that the box does not come back
>> > to a useful state for at minimum 10 minutes. I really wish they would
>> > schedule reboots at 4:00AM..
>> >
>>
>> If they really cared about the customer, the dvr would check to see
>> if it's busy recording, and wait until the recording is complete.
>
> But that's not possible for them to detect if we're feeding it's output into
> MythTV... ;-)
>

But it is possible to tell if the receiver is in its "powered up" state feeding
signal to its ouptuts.  It's just as nasty to reboot while someone is watching
"live tv" as it is to reboot while it's recording.

-- 
Drew Einhorn