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Re: MythTV Invades Cable, TiVo

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:59:01 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>| MythTV, an idea owned by no one and powered by an ever-growing number
>| of software applications that help boost the device's functionality,
>| could fill in where similar devices leave off -- all for the price of a
>| cheap PC.

I wouldn't call it a "cheap" PC.  I've never seen a MythTV box that wasn't
far more expensive than a TiVo.  Of course, part of that is because you
typically want a huge hard drive, and decent CPU performance because you
don't want to lose frames while you're doing other things with your MythTV
box.

I've been looking at building one for quite a while now, but I just haven't
been able to justify the cost of a PC with the specs I need to justify
replacing my TiVo.  The TiVo does a lot in a very cheap box.  Further, the
new Series 3 with CableCARD support will be very hard to match with a
MythTV, since legal CableCARD support isn't likely to be coming to generic
Linux soon (it has similar issues as DVD decoding)

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