[SGVLUG] Especially for Mike

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 3/8/06, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/8/06, Dustin Laurence <dustin at dogbert.laurences.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:02:54PM -0600, Jean Chen wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/7/06, Dustin Laurence <dustin at dogbert.laurences.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Of course we expect you to go with the geek-approved open-source
> > > > solution and set up a MythTV box.
> > >
> > > You're right!  Uh, that "TiVo" was a typo... yeah.
> >
> > Good.  I'd hate to have to call up the Chicago LUGs and ask them to deal
> > with a "stray penguin."  :-)
> >
> > Dustin, "Linux: you can check out, but you can never leave"
>
> Hang on.  TiVo uses Linux and they have released source code per the
> GPL.  This includes their changes to the PowerPC kernel, modules,
> commands, libraries and tools.  Obviously they didn't release the
> source to their proprietary database/filesystem which they need to do
> to have some kind of DRM in place.
>
> http://www.tivo.com/linux/linux.asp
>
> As for TiVo or MythTV or any of the other DIY projects, it's a matter
> of how much free time you have and how much you value it.  If I didn't
> sit at a computer all day, had decent spare parts on hand and was low
> on extra funds, then MythTV might be the way to go.  But with a family
> and other things to occupy my time, I prefer something that just works
> 24x7 and doesn't require me to be tweaking it constantly.
>

While MythTV may not be cheaper then Tivo, as far as start up price,
eventually the monthly fee will overcome that. It does not require
constant tweaking. In fact it requires none. It has features that Tivo
does not, example there new feature is the ability to schedule
recordings from cell phones. I did this years ago with MythTV's web
interface, and it did not cost me 5 dollars a month.

> BTW, someone sent me a link to an article at Wired News:
> "Build Your Own PVR, Then Trash It"
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70328-0.html?tw=rss.index
>
> which has a link to Build Your Own PVR at http://byopvr.com/
>

Not even about MythTV, it is about some other software. The first one
being windows based.