On 01/26/2011 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > > I'm not speaking for these, (and understand #2 is gone) but I'm curious > as to why you're getting rid of them; what are you using in their > places?
Hi, Mark: I wish you could have joined us at Wings Your Way last night! It seemed like a ex-MythTV-admins meeting at times. And there was good food, good company and lots of stories to swap... I took a few notes: http://blog.tedroche.com/?p=3645 Personally, I wasn't willing to pay the premium cable rates for HD, considering the quality of network TV and the free/cheap alternatives out there. We have the TV on in the evening for background noise mostly, and watch most of the good stuff on DVD, Hulu or directly on the network's web sites. Years ago, without a lot of upfront effort and tinkering, Myth was too much hassle. For me, it was more of a hobby with spare underpowered hardware; with the modern stuff and investment in proper hardware, I suspect the experience is a lot better. I didn't really have sufficient interest to give it the time and budget it required to move it from the basement to the living room. One of last night's lightening talks was Kenta Koga showing off Boxee, an app built on top of, or evolved from, XBMC, and running on his Mac with his Android acting as a remote control. We talked about the various boxen available to hook up to TVs and where we thought the market would shake out. > As for me, I've got a few SiliconDust HDHomeRun tuners that work pretty > well for unencrypted digital cable. I've also got a couple of Pinnacle > "PCI HDTV" cards that give indications of working outside of Mythtv > (e.g. with tvtime), but that so far I'm at a dead end with on MythTV. > I've sort of got the impression that analog tuning is broken in MythTV > 0.24 but am interested to know if your PVR-150 is any more usable as > tuner for analog cable signals than the Pinnacle card is. And > interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not > replying off-list .. > The PVR-150 was rock solid when I used it on analog cable, but that was a version or two ago. As you say, they may have broken that support. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche& Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
