Thank you for that info. I didn't know there was a TitanTV arrangement
with Hauppauge. I just assumed TitanTV worked with any capture card!
Meanwhile, I showed up at the lab on Saturday, but was told no one
there had MythTV expertise (Gus couldn't make it?) so I'll try next
month, unless I get it working by then.
Thanks,
Dave
On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:41 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <[email protected]> wrote:
Oh well, so much
for open source.
You have some gross misconceptions about Open Source and Free (as in
Freedom) software. Schedules Direct is a service, just like your
cable TV or
telephone service. It is not the software. MythTV the software is
mostly
Free or Open Source (depending on the license), and you can do
pretty much
what you want with it. There is no obligation to give you the
scheduling
data for free just like the cable company doesn't give you your cable
service for free.
I would just like to expand on this. MythTV used to have free data
from
Zap2it, however it was being misused by commercial entities. So
zap2it cut
us out. Before zap2it (or if outside USA) you had to have a scapper,
which
the legality of it is beyond the scope of this short email, and it
wasn't as
reliable. After zap2it cut off the community, certain people
approached
them to purchase this data (actually instead of rehashing:
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/118505), anywho TitanTV is for
USA only
from what I understand, and you have had to purchase a corresponding
partner's product (ie your hauppauge item). Eh for $20/yr I've been
very
happy with SD, and so have my parents. I've had mythtv for going on
7 or 8
years (once you have kids things just blur together) and now have a
box that
records up to 4 shows at once (with the kids you know) and an
appleTV as my
frontend. I've been very happy with it, but it's not for everyone
or even
most people in my mind. When my parents box breaks, who you think
they are
calling? (which knock on wood once in 4 years).
Plus I like the ability to cut out commercials, burn to dvd's, watch
my
burned DVD's from one place. Sure I could do this with windows (i
have 1
windows box in my entire house for Skype Phone, the box didn't work
well in
linux, but $60/yr for unlimited calling hard to beat) but for a
front end in
the living room as small and quiet as an AppleTV box, doubt it. Plus
reboots all the time? (my backend was up for 452 days until I finally
upgraded it to 9.04).
Gus
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