On Sun, January 14, 2007 1:02 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > [snip] > > I'm not as clueless as you think. Your cable approach is ingenious, > but >> byzantine. I can't see my wife using it, let alone the kids. This is a design requiremet. >> Also, the ability to watch one and record one is highly desireable, almost >> a requiremet. And tuning must make sense to my family. Having to tune in >> 2 >> places for one channel sucks. >> All this is worth $20 for a switch. > > Your response shows that you ARE clueless. I don't say this lightly, as I know you but this is one of those things where YOU JUST DON'T IT.
I grant you, I am not very clueful. OK? And you're not a vey good reader ... or explaner, I'm not sure which. I cannot ever recall bickering so much with someone who was helping me, outside of my wife, of course. > > The TV set has its own TV tuner receiving an input from the cable. You can watch TV anytime by selecting the antenna input from the TV's remote. It is INDEPENDENT of the Myth box or the DVD. You can watch DVD anytime you want INDEPENDENT of the Myth box by selecting Video 2 from the TV control. You can watch Myth anytime you want by selecting Video 1 from the TV remote. > This makes sense if the S-Vid input on the TV goes to VID1 or VID2 ... which you dropped in as a late footnote (still unconfirmed). <see, I have to try to be right -- it's a sickness.> > You said you are getting rid of the VCR as soon as you transfer the tapes. Is that now untrue? Do you still need to watch video tapes? If that is the case then you lied about the design requirements. > Did I? Well I changed my mind :-P No, really, if I can keep everything on line _with_ simplicity of operation, why not. For $20? I'm a CB, not a vagrant. Now, about sound. As I understand it, S-Vid and coax both carry sound with them, no other connections needed. But I _don't_ know if this applies to the S-Vid out of the nVidia card, which as I understand it, is the output of Myth (the S-Vid on the Hauppauge being input, right?). I would like very much not to dink with a mess of sound leads. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
