On 6/9/05, David Asher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our household is currently all DirecTivos (2 series 1, 1 HDTivo). > > My wife LOVES her/our tivos. (As do I) > > Unfortunately, DirecTV ticked me off recently with the NFL Sunday Ticket > pricing, and I've always loved the convergence possiblities (realities?) > of MythTV, so I'm thinking of using it as an opportunity to bring in MythTV. > > Once MythTV is working, is it as stable as the tivos? Is it as > trustworthy as the tivos? I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, > is it as easy to use as the tivos? I know it can do things that the > tivos can't, but I'm not sure my wife will be interested in those things. > > Anyone with experience using both directivos and MythTV please chime > in. I really,really,REALLY don't want to lose the WAF of the Tivos. > > Thanks, > > David.
I have no experience with Tivo's, as I never saw the value of paying for them. But when I thought about the possibility of building my own, it was easy to shell out a couple of hundred bucks for some capture cards and a big hdd. I believe the WAF is very high with my Mythbox. About the only time she gets upset is when I start fiddling around and break it. And even then it's not too bad, because when I am done and it's back online, it usually works better than it did previously (new features, plugins, etc.). The wife is actually sitting right next to me now, on her *cough* windows box. Let me ask her to rate it on a scale of 1 - 10... She says it would rate a 7 if it were not sitting in a tower case beside the TV. The fact that I don't have it in a compact type case drops it to a 5. She also adds that because I now am in front of the TV a lot more than I used to be, perhaps it's a 4. However, she never misses an Oprah anymore, so I'm offended by her rating of 7. --Garry _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
