And, with my Mythbox finally running, I can really zoom in on whatever bodypart gets exposed at half time this year. As an added bonus, Tivo won't even know I did it :-)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/03/television.tivo.reut/index.html On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:40:58 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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