spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Where would MythTV "go" in the next year?
> BEOS was driven out of business by microsoft's stranglehold on vendors.
> Now, who could drive an open source project "out of business"?
Exactly. MythTV has a loyal following that is constantly improving it.
Because it is free from the pressures of a commercial entity's marketing
or legal department, it is free to implement those popular features that
the DRM loving, copyright paranoid, commercial PVR makers have largely
avoided. My terrabyte linux media box can automatically edit out
commercials, ignores broadcast flags, can download content directly
from Internet as well as from the satellite dish, can be controlled via
a web page, play music from my MP3 collection (accessing the same archive
that the jukebox in the recroom does), it has a built in MAME emulator
for playing classic arcade games, and can pipe streaming video to other
computers or televisions elsewhere in the house. I've had as many as three
different shows being piped to different locations around the house while
recording a fourth from the dish... without a hickup. It also plays,
rips, and burns DVDs. It does all that, and doubles as the router and
NAT firewall for the house network.
Meanwhile, my DirecTiVo has stopped downloading its channel guide and
its clock is drifting.
You'll get my MythTV from me when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
>:)
Thad
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