[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>I have been monitoring this mail list for a while now. And mythTV looks >>> >>> >>very interesting. And I know it is not released yet. And to be clear I >>and not trying to be insulting or start a fight. But... >> >> > >Based on past history on this list, you might get a fight anyway :) > >To answer your questions, I've been using it since shortly after 0.17 was >released, and it works extremely well. It pays to do your homework on >hardware imho (not that I did a spectacular job of that either ;) > >In fact, it works so well, I have basically retired my ExpressVu PVR, and >use Myth exclusively. My only "complaint" (and I put it in quotes because >it isn't really a big deal) is that live tv is much more awkward than it >was on the Expressvu pvr. > >I find that I almost never watch anything in "liveTV" mode though - I >watch sports live, but I schedule it to record and watch it from the >view-recordings screen instead. I think a lot of that is a side effect of >having a slow frontend (Xbox) > >Channel surfing is right out the window too, but then I'd pretty much >stopped doing that when I got satellite TV with a proper guide anyway. >MythWeb is one of the truly great accessories. > >Sure, it's not perfect, but I like it a lot, and my wife seems to like it >better than the old PVR too. > >Greg >_______________________________________________ >mythtv-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > As someone who's been using it since the .15 days this is an extremely stable platform for a piece of software labeled as .18.1. I have a frame grabber tuner which I'll soon be upgrading to a PVR-500, I record 20 or so shows a day along with automatically deleting old episodes. I watch DVDs on the box and use MythWeb for scheduling. I have no complaints about this software :) especially once you see how cool it is to have remote frontends.
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