OT: I hate RCN's DVR

[Derek Atkins]

Don Levey <lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> I've been meaning to ask about this, since I've got RCN (and we just got
> a new box, which I think might have a firewire connection).  It sounds
> like you're saying the MythTV box simply acts as external storage, since
> the cable box is what has (and controls) the tuner.  Apart from
> controlling the storage aspect, what advantage does the Myth box give?

Myth can tune the cablebox.  So you get the ability to record off the
cablebox into a format you can access from anywhere, including watching
it on any other TV (with a Myth frontend) or transcoding it and copying
it to your laptop for when you travel or anything else.

All this assumes you understand the benefits of MythTV....

>  -Don

-derek, who's been running Myth since version 0.11

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