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

mugginz feed.mugginz at internode.on.net
Tue Apr 20 16:35:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:16:05 am Clay wrote:
> --- On Mon, 4/19/10, mugginz <feed.mugginz at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > I really don't understand all on the anti-LiveTV
> > sentiment.  There are some
> > really valid use cases that include LiveTV....
> 
> I really can't think of any valid use case for watching live TV.


I'm not sure anyone is saying *all* people must watch LiveTV, only that *some* 
people have the need for it.


> A couple years back, we had a little fire burning upwind of us:
> <http://home.pacbell.net/clayt/fire04.jpg>
> 
> One of the really valid cases for knowing what the news is now, wouldn't
> you say?
> 
> I was watching three or four channels that were covering it, trying to get
> an aerial perspective of which way the fire was moving... when/if we
> needed to bug out. Having three or four channels recording that I can skim
> through is way better than 'channel surfing' and hoping to catch a glimpse
> of a landmark...
> 
> Nothing on TV is so urgent that a minute or two time shift would make a
> difference, imo.


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