Exactly .. think of it as a free to air HDD recorder on steroids and you get my drift. They take the guess work out of the hardware and build a box that does its job well. After buying the box, we now have oodles left over to buy DVDs again .. :-)<br>
<br>A huge irritation is always vendor lockin, use of closed standards, the seducation of glossy brochures and the hype around the hawthorn effect when new technologies are launched. As a rule, I avoid bagging solutions on a public mailing list so feel free to chat to me off-list .. I can add more.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 31/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cameron Bell</b> <<a href="mailto:bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I had it running on the R51 over the hols with a couple of movies<br>installed as a trial. But I couldn't get it to recognise the TV capture<br>card I had though. :-( This is often a problem for Linux and having a<br>
company put together a box that is all compatible is very attractive.<br>I thought of doing the same thing and looking at replacing Clickview,<br>but the cost of replacing the Clickview content was not trivial. But<br>using it as a free2air recorder is looking good.<br>
Cheers<br>Cameron<br><br>Roland Gesthuizen wrote:<br>> This is an interesting product .. we bought one of these units last<br>> year for our school instead of renewing our ClickView licence with<br>> money left over. Very well priced and we keep discovering new features<br>
> or things we can do. Think of TiVO or a HDD TV recorder on steroids<br>> and you get the idea. I was impressed by some of the YouTube videos<br>> about how to use MythTV that you can Google for yourself on the web.<br>
><br>> This Saturday at the Open Day held at Melbourne University, you can<br>> check out and play with these units (or even consider for home)<br>> Details below ..<br>><br>> Regards Roland<br>><br>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
><br>> Date: 30 Jan 2008 00:09<br>> Subject: MythTV stand at LinuxConf Open Day<br>><br>> LinuxConf Open Day is on this Saturday. MythTV have a stand,<br>> everyone is welcome to drop by and check it out.<br>
> <a href="http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?title=Open_Day#MythTV">http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?title=Open_Day#MythTV</a><br>><br>> Mike Williams is an Australian MythTV developer. He builds and<br>
> installs MythTV systems based on the KnoppMyth installation. He<br>> can deliver and run the install with a brief tutorial all at once.<br>> He has also been fairly open about providing support to any<br>
> questions we have had trying out new things with the box also.<br>> Homepage at <a href="http://www.better-access.com/">http://www.better-access.com/</a><br>><br>><br>><br>> Regards Roland<br>><br>
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