[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[Douglas Peale]

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Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2010 05:10:05 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 04/19/2010 07:03 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>>> On Monday 19 April 2010 04:47:09 pm Christopher Kerr wrote:
>>>>> I'm busy for the next few days but will be looking over the source
>>>>> after that to get a handle on what's going on and what can be done to
>>>>> correct this.
>>>> I'm curious: am I the only person around here who's using an antenna
>>>> splitter with enough outputs that I can use the TVs own tuners for
>>>> watching LiveTV?
>>> What a novel concept: Actually use the TV for what it was designed for.
>>>
>>> Of course the advantage of watching live TV with Myth is the ability to
>>> just hit "R" and save the program for posterity, as well as being able to
>>> pause things when the phone rings or another "student" selling magazine
>>> subscriptions rings the door bell.
>> Which is never necessary if you record everything you might /possibly/
>> want to watch rather than only recording things you know you want to
>> watch.  If you do, Live TV has absolutely no use whatsoever...
> 
> Of course you never know what's going to pop up on live TV. I still have some 
> VHS tape from mid-September 2001 that I could not have anticipated.
> 
> I think  many Myth users almost never use the live TV function (I use it 
> rarely), but it seems to be the first thing complained about by new users when 
> their systems are not set up properly. It takes new users a while to figure out 
> that eliminating live viewing is a feature, not a problem.
> 
> One large advantage to Myth, IMHO, is that I do not have to watch live TV, 
> along with its commercials, and I can watch what I want when I want.
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Live-TV is an essential tool for determining if the tuners are set up properly and for identifying channels to determine if the channels are mapped properly.
Yes newbes will complain about it not working, but imagine trying to debug their systems without it.


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