[mythtv-users] Recordings record wrong channel

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Wed Oct 21 08:10:02 UTC 2009


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/20/2009 05:04 PM, raptor jr wrote:
>> I've never understod what everyone has against LiveTV? I could 
>> understand if you have like 100+ channels to choose from LiveTV 
>> wouldnt be very practical. But if you have like 10-15 channels and 
>> maybe 1-2 shows a week that is good enough to record it is relaxing to 
>> take some time off and sit down and browse around to see if there is 
>> anything fun to watch.
> 
> The fundamental difference is that people who don't use LiveTV don't 
> understand your, "good enough to record," comment.  You have space.  
> Empty space is useless.  Fill it up with anything you might possible 
> ever consider watching and let MythTV expire the stuff you're least 
> interested in watching.

That just doesn't make sense. You can't tell for sure just on the basis
of description whether a program might be interesting to you, and even
less so - if you have trouble finding time to read the day's entire
listing - can you tell by just the title.

> Then, /every/ time you sit down (at any time of 
> day/night) with some free time and a wish to escape reality, you have 
> something available to watch and you're almost guaranteed to have 
> something better than what's currently airing (or, if not, you have an 
> in-progress recording of whatever is better that's currently airing that 
> you can watch).

But also you lose completely the possibility of a lucky find.

> Of course this doesn't help people who don't actually care to watch TV, 
> but would rather spend a few hours of playing the "what /else/ is on" 
> lottery to see if they might stumble across the end of something that 
> they /should/ have recorded.

What a strange thing to say. Do you really think there are two types of
people, ones that flick and ones that watch programs and nothing in
between? Admittedly, to watch live any program you know up front you
wish to see is not the best way to use a DVR, but live playback
definitely has its uses.

Paul.



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list