[mythtv-users] Commercial PVR offerings - is MythTv still competitive ?

[jedi]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 03:39:20PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Mon, February 9, 2009 3:33 pm, jedi wrote:
> >     Now the idea that you have to make special preparations to make a
> > PC handle HD is just silly. PCs are inherently "high definition"
> > devices and have been since before there were ideas of having HD TV.
> 
> The amount of discussion on this list about how to get proper HD playback
> suggests otherwise.  It seems this is a really difficult issue for a lot

     A lot of that also boils down to fine tuning and regression.

> of people.  At any rate, I know my 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 can't do it.  Buying

     A lot of people certainly throw some really old hardware at MythTV.

> a machine with the minimum specs for smooth HD playback would, at this
> point, result in my MythTV box being the most powerful computer in my
> whole house.

     You could also achieve the same result by buying the cheapest non-netbook
that you can lay your hands on.