[Discuss] Is MythTV dead?

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>:
> MythTV is still actively being
> developed, its just not moving at break-neck pace these days.

It needs to be.

> That said, I'm actually thinking about not using MythTV anymore. For
> one, most of what the kids watch anymore is Netflix.

That's why:  the whole way people use TV sets is getting ripped out and
rearranged in fundamental ways.  MythTV simply isn't keeping up.

In order to have a user-friendly front end, it has to be able to pull online
content from a variety of sources (Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, plus whatever else
got invented in the past 15 minutes) and convert it into a unified look and
feel to match the familar PVR and DVD/BluRay content that most people have. 
The back-end should be set up to bookmark and archive anything you might want
later, without making its presence particularly apparent except when it wants
you to add more storage.  (And I'd actually like to be able to have 2 or more
back-end machines with complete fail-over capability, perhaps even set up as a
shared grid between multiple people's homes.)

Suppose I wanted to go off and write such a thing from the ground up.  What
would stand in the way of creating a new open-source project to accomplish
exactly that?

-rich