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- Dalhectar, on 11/17/2008, -4/+45No Cablecard support means no support for FIOS Digital Cable... No use for me.
That said, It beats the socks off of Front Row and eyeTV. I'd say it looks better that Windows Media Center and Sage.
The Linux folks should be happy, but PC based DVRs are becoming increasingly irrelevant in the world of encrypted digital cable and satellite providers. - inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+32pretty badass. never knew such a thing existed. Big ups for open source.
- agentlame, on 11/18/2008, -0/+28"No OSS offerings support CableCard, and none ever will. It's a closed standard. "
Like DVDs? - knop3se, on 11/18/2008, -5/+32Wow, still so ugly!!!
- hartley, on 11/18/2008, -3/+26Good. The "prettiness" factor is the only reason Ive stayed with Windows Media Center over the years.
The MythTV people can take a few interface/feature lessons from the boxee people. - adrien, on 11/18/2008, -6/+22Gosh.. They really need help with graphic design. It is actually better than the previous version?
- Sal4, on 11/18/2008, -6/+21Looks terrible. Could take some hints from the amazing skin designers at XBMC, like MediaStream and Aeon.
http://www.plexapp.com/images/imgHomeMediaStream-w ...
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qVaOWaF1IoM/SJwjQXTQDKI/AAAA ... - PVanderVossen, on 11/17/2008, -1/+16Every time I see an article on MythTV, I wish I had more time to try to build a mythTV box of my own. However I always come to the conclusion that I'll just be lazy and let the satellite people bring whatever garbage they have out to my house instead.
- jerkychew, on 11/17/2008, -2/+16If you want to view your movies and music, xbmc is far superior to MythMusic & MythDVD. They're not even in the same league IMHO. XBMC doesn't record tv so I'm not sure how you were using it before. Personally I added a menu item to my Mythbuntu install that calls XBMC when I want to watch DVD images, and then I can quit back to Myth when done. It's not the most elegant solution but I'm no programmer and I can do everything from my mini wireless keyboard.
- Keithamus, on 11/18/2008, -0/+12To those who are saying this is ugly... well, it kind of is, but thats not the point! The new changes adds the flexibility for theme developers (not coders) to create something that IS beautiful. The old theme styling merely allows you to have buttons with X and Y coords, and an over/off state; this gives you complete control over every button, every label and more - so theme designers can make something that looks much better!
- bubba9999, on 11/18/2008, -0/+11colorful statement, pantone.
- AndyGasman, on 11/17/2008, -0/+9You could always try the Mythbuntu CD.
Since it's a live CD, all you would have to is download the ISO, burn it to CD and boot up. No box building required to try it out, if you liked it, just by a dell studio hybrid or something, if box buying is more for you than box building. - Tombstone0, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8The new Hauppauge HD PVR 1212 will be supported in the new version (it works in SVN right now). It'll allow you to record HD from your FIOS box though it records through the Component output. A straight digital recorder would be better, but it works.
- gadgetlust, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7XBMC is an exceptional piece of software. It has completely changed the way we watch videos at our house. It does its job so well that I'm seriously considering buying another original XBOX to have as a backup for when this one dies.
- griffeycom, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7OTA FTW!
- Nosferax, on 11/18/2008, -1/+7Ya sure. Call me back when they remove my 20DL/10UL cap on my line...
- smotpoker, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6"(n)ever" is a long time... Some standards do eventually get opened (or reverse engineered at least).
Here's hoping you're wrong! - PVanderVossen, on 11/17/2008, -1/+7Thanks for the tip. Must remember, whenever there is a lazy person in the world, their is a smart entrepreneur willing to profit off of that lazy person in some way. =)
- secrity, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6I prefer vi.
- abbathdoom, on 11/18/2008, -2/+8"PC based DVRs are becoming increasingly irrelevant in the world of encrypted digital cable and satellite providers."
2 years from now digital cable and satellite providers will be irrelevant. Everything will be online to watch for free from sites like Hulu. - jamesdew, on 11/18/2008, -1/+7How is being unaware of an application a retarded remark. He was unaware of it, he is impressed and interested. Condescending arseholes like you are what keep people away from open source software.
- PhailQuail, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6Ad-block for TV? Badass? you bet!
- crashcarstar, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5Yes.
- llurker, on 11/18/2008, -1/+6By then all ISPs will have instituted monthly download limits. Some already have and I would bet one hyperinflating Federal Reserve Note that the main motivation behind it is to stifle the growth of online video.
- jbmcb, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5MythTV is super-insanely-awesome. My Shuttle based Mythbuntu box has been running nearly non-stop for four years without a hiccup, only brought down every month or two for updates and upgrades.
The commercial-skip feature is nearly PERFECT. Mad Men is nearly seamless, you can't even tell where the commercials were. - maxshanly, on 11/18/2008, -1/+6It still looks ugly.
- geoken, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5Boxee +2
As it's ties to online content grow, the need to record TV goes down. Between all the online services and the integrated torrent client (read: TV rss torrent feeds) recording TV has become irrelevant for me. - cardyology, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4I spent weeks & weeks running mythbuntu for my home PVR. It worked really well, TV from one backend with 4 DVB-t tuners streamed to any room in the house, mainly to a hackintosh with the mythTV frontend for OSX. iPhone as a remote/orbiter.
It was pretty sweet, MUCH better than Vista MCE.
The only reason I changed is because I suck at linux & got sick of random errors & issues I had no idea how to fix.
Might give it another try. - adriaaan, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4Boxee +3, rocking my AppleTV right now.
- sinkleir, on 11/18/2008, -2/+6You should STFU it's my favorite acronym
- vjk2005, on 11/18/2008, -1/+5+1 for boxee; simple, functional and attractive.
- benswanson, on 11/17/2008, -9/+12great i wont have to use xbmc
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3It's about time MythTv's UI currently looks like it's out of 1996. Well, the Retro theme is good, but a new UI is quite welcome!
- esperoboy, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3Linux community seriously needs to find talented UI designer as well as capable art directors to make it to the main stream. I am sure the programming side is solid enough - they have to stop copying stuff from windows (or Mac) and establish the own brand itself. And I am not saying slapping a penguin is all what it takes - its not. Better typeface, better (and original) color scheme, and most importantly UI and usability.
"But we can use this fine as is" is not good enough - The readability of the typeface or how information is organized is as important as how OS behave. I hope devs of these project like MythTV or Linux community realizes that soon. - jerkychew, on 11/17/2008, -3/+6No OSS offerings support CableCard, and none ever will. It's a closed standard.
HD-PVR will be your only solution for full HD in the forseeable future unless you want to use (eek) Windows Media Center. - jerkychew, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3CableCard will never be supported in FOSS, it's too locked down and DRMed. Hauppauge's HD-PVR box will be supported in Myth 0.22 and will pipe component HD from your FIOS box over USB to your DVR, allowing you to record anything that comes out of your FIOS box. Sure, it's an extra step, more money and more wires, but it works and until the cable companies start disabling component outputs on their STBs, they can't do anything to stop it.
- underthewether, on 11/18/2008, -1/+4looks virtually the same as the old interface
- rishid, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Wow the new one looks like a ***** of data.
- BoneheadFarker, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Give Mythdora a try. I've been using it since version 3. Easy to install and configure if you don't go too far off the automated path. I don't have a DVB card, but the last upgrade took me about an afternoon to complete. Normally I buy a new hard drive, move everything over to that temporarily, format and reinstall everything, copy the contents back over, and then add the new drive to the LVM. Fairly simple once you locate the instructions for LVM, even if you don't know Linux well. And that includes getting a Nvidia card working too. Or if you really want to go all out, Linux MCE look promising.
There's lots of choice when it comes to Linux media centers. Experiment and you'll find what you're looking for. - akiller, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2I currently use GB-PVR (http://www.gbpvr.com/pmwiki/) to record and XBMC to watch, both seem to work very well but I'm tempted to try this out.
If only my xbox could handle HD I'd be happy - it does up-scale perfectly well though :(. - RudeTurnip, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2I like Boxee, except I don't like how it shows my "friends" (a word that has lost its value thanks to social networking) what I'm watching.
- flxfxp, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Mac mini + xbmc = happy manly vegetables
- tep200377, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Still ugly ass hell.. Why cant they get a designer to do the job, and not the developers kid...
The same goes to amarok, its ugly ass hell ... Its like making a very good software and kick it right back to 1984 with the ugly user interface ..
It's like jerking off with all the photoshop plugins and then "ok now its awesome" ... NEEDS MORE LENSFLARE maybe .. - Iwantawii, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2sounds great for a party
- revenz, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2ill stick with GBPVR, most stable and reliable PVR on the windows platform, and probably the easiest to setup on any platform.
- tapeworm77, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2I had to retire mine - no HD support :(
- tokabowla, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2I hope they fix the music player. I'd like to be able to play a track w/o creating a frikkin playlist & all that BS.
- DrGamez, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2@argentlame
Thanks! - gregms, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2The MythTV interface isn't that great, but has a lot of potential. The developers have been working hard to create the changes in .22 that will allow theme-designers a lot more freedom and make MythTV look much better. It has a sadly outdated look right now, but that is all about to change!
- cardyology, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I tried linuxMCE too, added a patch so I could use a wiimote as a navigator. I found it much more comlicated to configure than mythbuntu.
I have considered MythDora though.... I feel a weekend project coming on!! -
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