Sorry about the resurrection, and I don't recall the rest of this thread,
but I was just ordering DishTV online and found this interesting document:
http://www.dishnetwork.com/downloads/pdf/LLP_Release_Form.pdf
Landlords have no legal right to prohibit your use of a satellite dish
(under 1 meter) if said dish can reside within your realm of influence,
i.e. your patio or balcony. If you have a south facing apartment you can
forsake the TV supplied by the complex and be the cool kid on campus.
-Matt
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:18:03 -0800, MattyJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I love my Myth and wouldn't have it any other way, but if you want it to
"just work," be sure to do comparison shopping against whatever the dish
provider would supply you with ... and remember to put some value on
your
time.
My 2 cents is that if you are looking at HD, it's hard to justify the
cost of the hardware to run Myth (or any homegrown-ish app, IMHO.) Once
I got about halfway to the cost of a Tivo and could barely eke out one
channel of HD, I scrapped my Myth plans.
However, my testing with cheaper, non HD tuners went off without a
hitch. I had a leftover case and CPU sitting around and Myth performed
very well with lower bandwidth requirements. The interface is pretty
slick, pretty easy to set up if you don't have to tweek anything (but
you will), it does a lot of stuff, not limited to just PVR. I'd
recommend starting out with KnoppMyth and growing your system from there.
I'm not sure how/why you're limited to non PVR's for your apartment-wide
Dish installation, but if you haven't already you might try calling Dish
directly to see if they can hook you up. At least confirm that it's a
technical issue and not just a thing where the apartment managment
doesn't want to deal with it. It seems odd that a regular tuner would be
fine, but a PVR would not. Once the stream gets to you it seems like you
should be able to do anything you want with it. They may be interested
at gaining a loyal customer when said customer moves out of the
apartment and has some decisions to make about their programming
provider.
-Matt
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