why you should try MythTv

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:50:03AM -0400, Josh Pollak wrote:
> Also, I just found MythTV too unstable (on my Gentoo box). It wouldn't 
> update overnight, it was slow, whatever. Perhaps I was using hardware 
> that wasn't powerful enough, but it seemed pretty powerful to me. But 
> again, MythTV promises to let you build a TiVo-like device yourself, 
> and one of the points of that to me would be that it should be cheaper 
> than a TiVo itself. My hardware costs alone were more than the TiVo + 
> life-time subscription. Over time as PCs get cheaper, I'm sure the cost 
> might make Myth more attractive.

Cost is whats keeping me from doing it.  A friend of mine has a mythtv
setup that he swears by.  I think the way he did it was by just going
with redhat.  He's a debian guy, but all the mythtv stuff is tested
and used by lots of redhat people, so he went with that and stuff
works =)  I got a tivo series 1 with a lifetime sub from a friend for
free.. so mythtv can't really compete with that.

-miah