[blu] why you should try MythTv

[miah]

Why waste time by not doing something because you lack the skills to
build it when you can buy it for less than $5 on ebay..

There is even a guy that usually shows up at the MIT Flea that sells
the packardbell serial IR receivers and a remote, with a cd that includes
LIRC and all the winamp stuff.  I think he was selling them for like
$10

-miah

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:02:25AM -0400, Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, David Backeberg wrote:
> 
> > I have no idea how to mod a TiVo, as I went straight to using MythTv.
> > Among things I haven't had to mod to get:
> > -qwerty keyboard
> 
> You like this? It presonally drives me batty. I long for a remote. I have
> one, I just lack the electronic skills to make an IR reciever (The WinTV
> card I have is very picky about aht it accepts for signals).
> 
> But the rest of your comments are right on the money. I'd rather have a
> PVR-250 though, doing the encoding in software is bothersome sometimes.
> 
> 				~Ben
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