See ? if you would have stayed here instead of moving to the big bad city, you?d have had DirecTV and a decent internet connection in no time J
BTW: hit me off list with when y?all will be back in town, S is itching to go bowling James From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mat branyon Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:42 PM To: general at brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mythtv box Don't get me started on the crap I had to go through with getting directv in the new house. Long story short... after almost 4 weeks, I only have holes in my siding to show for it... On Nov 20, 2007 12:37 PM, James Kuhns <HYPERLINK "mailto:james at kuhns-la.com"james at kuhns-la.com> wrote: I fully agree, it was fun and informative playing with the hardware/software but in the end, I realized the time/money I was spending reinventing the wheel was costing me more than the 5-10 bucks a month it costs for an off-the-shelf box that already did what I wanted. Now, if DirectTV would just pick up my locals in HD I could dump our COX cable package. James -----Original Message----- From: HYPERLINK "mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net"[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:HYPERLINK "mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net"general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf Of -ray Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:22 PM To: HYPERLINK "mailto:general at brlug.net"general at brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mythtv box On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, James Kuhns wrote: > I gave up on capturing TV on a PC - I've tried MythTV, MS Media Center, and > SageTV with different capture cards - none looked as good as the boxes from > my sat and cable provider. The only thing I use my HTPCs for is to > watch/listen to the DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray/CD collection stored on my media > server, granted this is enough, just the ability to pick a movie from the > menu without having to hunt the disk down is great. I'm in the same boat. I gave up on MythTV/SageTV/BeyondTV/etc. Maybe i'm getting old. Tinkering with the hardware/software is fun, and you learn a lot. But at the end of the day, I just want to watch TV. The Tivo hardware is cheap, the software works, and the $10/month is worth it to me. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean HYPERLINK "http://www.r-a-y.org"; \nhttp://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ General mailing list HYPERLINK "mailto:General at brlug.net"General at brlug.net HYPERLINK "http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net"; \nhttp://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: 11/20/2007 11:34 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: 11/20/2007 11:34 AM _______________________________________________ General mailing list HYPERLINK "mailto:General at brlug.net"General at brlug.net HYPERLINK "http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net"; \nhttp://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: 11/20/2007 11:34 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: 11/20/2007 11:34 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071120/c6f70b17/attachment.html
