On 12/5/2011 11:08 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:40:50PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
What direction should I take now that I've really finally had *enough* of
MythTV?
TiVo. It just bloody works, and very well at that, and I can say
without reservation I've been a happy TiVo user for about 10 years or
so. Yeah, you have to pay a subscription fee, but time is money, and
all that time you spent messing with MythTV is worth something, too...
TiVo won't do everything he wants. He also wants to be able to play his
backups of DVDs; TiVo won't do that. TiVo would also be an awkward
solution if your high-resolution display device is a computer monitor
rather than a TV set, though there are workarounds. Adapting HDMI to
DVI, if necessary for a monitor with no DVI inputs, isn't that hard.
Dealing with audio could be a pain if you only have computer speakers.
Neither will Windows Media Center, though it will play physical DVDs.
The Windows 7 version is actually a pretty good DVR for recording
over-the-air broadcasts; the UI isn't as slick as TiVo but it gets the
job done, and it's easier to skip commercials on WMC. No subscription
fee, but you have to pay for a Windows license if you didn't already get
one with your computer.
I suppose that TiVo is slightly more on-topic for BLU since it actually
does sort of have Linux inside; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization for the explanation of "sort of".
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