MythTV Allows Multiple Front-Ends On Wide Range of Platforms

As the DVR becomes a much more pervasive performer in home theater setups, the level of excellence demanded by the general consumer seems to continue to rise. The open source project MythTV has been in this arena for quite a while, and now offers the ability to have multiple front-ends on your MythTV install on a wide range of different platforms. Able to run on Windows XP, Vista, Xbox, and even an Apple iPod, the new flexibility is sure to interest many consumers (and many competitors).

Re:Please reconsider

[Anonymous Coward]

you are aware, are you not, that when you begin a post by telling us how long ago you swore off television we pretty much discount everything else you are going to say just because you sound like a stuck up elitist pig? Just saying.

Re:MythTV increasingly impractical (digital and HD

[Firehed]

your an idiot...

Fail.

Re:$250 Cable Bills Increasingly Impractical.

[Professor_UNIX]

Now you're just being ridiculous and making up numbers. My cable bill is well under $215... not even $205. Idiot.

Re:Broadcast TV

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but we'll just pirate those until they decide they want our money.

Re:Slashvertisement?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Yup, that's gotta be it. Those MythTV tycoons may be giving it away for free; but by god do they ever clean up on volume! If we ignore distribution costs, the extra adwords income from the traffic boost might keep the devs in hookers and blow for 30, maybe 40, seconds!

Re:MythTV increasingly impractical (digital and HD

[Minwee]

It's not as if they took away the older ones when they added the new ones.

You're right. It's not as if there was some kind of mystical "High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection" system added which would screw up the picture quality if it detected that you hadn't paid enough money for your HDTV. That would be ridiculous.

Re:MythTV increasingly impractical (digital and HD

[isorox]

MythTV also works fine in the non-US parts of the world where DVB-T is pretty much standard for digital terrestrial broadcasts.

Mine worked fine with my sky box too -- RS232 cable to receive what channel the ox is on, and an IR-blaster like box to change it down the second RF input.

I then tried upgrading the hard drive, and accidentally short-circuited my PSU. Doesn't work now... Mythtv will never win until it's immune from dropping a screwdriver between 12V and 0 rails while the machine's on.