----- Original Message ----- From: "David George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Direct TV implementation?
> On 6/24/2005 12:46 AM, Jim Trudell wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "David George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> > >Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:13 PM > >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Direct TV implementation? > > > > > >>Here is a link that should help you out. > >> > >>http://mythhd.info/directv.html > >> > >> > > > >Thanks for that link. It seems theres no magic, its the exact way i thought > >it would be, in which case, i'm going to have to move on to another > >solution. I'd like to be able to record and watch or do PIP with this > >solution and for that, i'd need dual boxes and a bunch of workarounds. > > > > > Yes, you will need two satellite receivers and two capture cards, but > any solution where you watch one channel and record another or if you do > PIP will require two tuners. Yes, I know about the DirecTiVo which has > two tuners built-in (I have one). You won't need a lot of workarounds > though as MythTV is designed to do this. I have two DirecTv receivers > and two HDTV capture cards in my backend and can record 4 shows and > watch something I already recorded at once. > > The only thing you will lose is being able to record HDTV from DirecTv > unless you have a particular HDTV receiver and get the 169time.com > modification. > > -- > David > I'm just going to pick up one of them DirecTiVo boxes like mentioned and a satelite signal splitter and stick my account card into it. Done deal. Not quite as functional as a Myth box, but atleast i wont need dual boxes and a splitter and a PC to do a similar job. Thanks again, i love the idea of MythTV but its not easilly done with DirectTV, if i had cable, i'd be all over. Jim _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users