why you should try MythTv

[miah]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:32:46AM -0400, Josh Pollak wrote:
> Maybe its just my TV that won't tune that high, but we watch a lot of 
> non-HBO channels above 100 or however high my TV tunes... like Speed 
> and Discovery2, Sundance, etc.

Those are all premium channels that you need the box for.

> 
> >Name 1 tv tuner that you can connect to the modded xbox.  Also,
> >remember that the xbox is only a p3 733. By default only has 128megs
> >of ram, and a 10gig hdd.  After all your modding, you'll end up with a
> >slow, and more expensive pvr.
> 
> No, I said use the XBox as a FRONTEND, which doesn't need a tuner. Of 
> course the X-Box is an impractical back-end device.
>
Even if its a front-end, you still need a way to pass video through
it, there is no video in.  Unless you were piping everything over
ethernet.
 
> >
> >also, xbox's are $150 now, mod's are anywhere from $50 - $100, my
> ><snip>
> >There are easier ways to do this than involving a xbox.
> 
> Yes, for a backend I agree, but the previous person wanted distributed 
> MythTV frontends around his house, and for that I think an XBox might 
> be sufficient, it wouldn't need storage or a tuner, so as long as you 
> can software decode your streams with a 733 mhz cpu, you'd be fine.

This would be interesting...


-miah