[[analog cable vs digital satellite]] bt> It's never accidentally off. (If your satelitte box gets an off bt> code for some reason, or goes off in power glitch, you get no bt> recording.)
In my TiVo setup, if the RCA DirecTV box is turned off, the TiVo somehow turns it on via the serial link when it does a channel change. Since TiVo always sends a channel change even if it's already on the right channel, it seems immune from the problem you mention. (Don't get me started about using a Dish box with an IR blaster. Grrr.) If MythTV doesn't do the same thing, presumably it could be figured out. bt> Not transcoding pre-compressed re-expanded video This especially bugs me for sports events. Seems like the broadcasters started using (more?) compression on their uplinks a couple years ago. So, you've got the uplink compress/expand, the satellite compress/expand, and the PVR compress/expand. The lossiness is pretty bad. It's kind of annoying when you're watching a network broadcast of a local event because it still uplinks back to their HQ. The good news is that the commercials still have all their original quality. :-)
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