On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:39:24PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Harry Orenstein wrote: > > > The real question is: if Isaac posts version 0.17 on Friday or Saturday (or > > even early on Sunday) how many people will risk the upgrade and take the > > chance that they won't be able to record the Super Bowl (and all those new > > and innovative commercials)? ;-) > > Some of us have no great desire to watch other people play games. >
I will be using Mythtv version 0.17 for my 3rd annual Superbowl commercials party. Last 2 years it was the TIvo, this year it's HD. At this party, we meet at 3pm and go for a hike while the box records a couple of hours of game. Then we come back, watch the football at high speed and slow down to watch the commercials. You have to totally reverse your normal remote control reflexes! And it's great fun, and in fact last year I had to have a remote display and fill two floors of my house with guests, the party has gotten so popular. Also, the football is perfectly watchable at the high speed, you can follow the game, slow down for interesting plays and watch last year's clutch finish in real time if you timed it perfectly. Those who don't want to even see the football game compressed into 30 minutes can socialize elsewhere in the house. This year the two floors will have independent control of the stream, which may be a good thing or may be a bad thing. The living room will run off my frontend box, and the backend, which doesn't usually display TV, will temporarily run a frontend as well. No easy way to have the two floors in sync with HDTV unless I had an ATSC transmitter or something like that. Retransmitting the remote seems way too risky.
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