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Tivo plus xbmc does it for me. I encoded all my DVDs to MKV due to space reasons. Oh, and Netflix on the tivo. All I need now is an easy way to play Amazon Prime. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Shirley M?rquez D?lcey" <mark at buttery.org> To: <discuss at blu.org> Subject: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over? Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 1:59 pm On 12/5/2011 11:08 AM, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:40:50PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote: >> What direction should I take now that I've really finally had *enough* of >> MythTV? > > TiVo. It just bloody works, and very well at that, and I can say > without reservation I've been a happy TiVo user for about 10 years or > so. Yeah, you have to pay a subscription fee, but time is money, and > all that time you spent messing with MythTV is worth something, too... TiVo won't do everything he wants. He also wants to be able to play his backups of DVDs; TiVo won't do that. TiVo would also be an awkward solution if your high-resolution display device is a computer monitor rather than a TV set, though there are workarounds. Adapting HDMI to DVI, if necessary for a monitor with no DVI inputs, isn't that hard. Dealing with audio could be a pain if you only have computer speakers. Neither will Windows Media Center, though it will play physical DVDs. The Windows 7 version is actually a pretty good DVR for recording over-the-air broadcasts; the UI isn't as slick as TiVo but it gets the job done, and it's easier to skip commercials on WMC. No subscription fee, but you have to pay for a Windows license if you didn't already get one with your computer. I suppose that TiVo is slightly more on-topic for BLU since it actually does sort of have Linux inside; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization for the explanation of "sort of". _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss at blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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