Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:40:50PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote: What direction should I take now that I've really finally had *enough* of MythTV? TiVo. It just bloody works, and very well at that, and I can say without reservation I've been a happy TiVo user for about 10 years or so. Yeah, you

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Kyle Leslie
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote: Tivo plus xbmc does it for me. I encoded all my DVDs to MKV due to space reasons. Oh, and Netflix on the tivo. All I need now is an easy way to play Amazon Prime. ^^ There are ways to put Netflix on XBMC as well.

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Kyle Leslie
Yes, this is true. Forgot that linux doesn't have silverlight. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:09:09PM -0500, Kyle Leslie wrote: ^^ There are ways to put Netflix on XBMC as well. (XBMC Flicks)

Re: [Discuss] Competition of broadband

2011-12-05 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/04/2011 05:14 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: My understanding of the spat between Curtatone and Verizon is that it stems from his opposition to Verizon's desire to negotiate video franchises on the state and not city level. Verizon keeps

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 12/5/2011 2:51 PM, Derek Martin wrote: Sure it will. You can use TiVo Desktop to copy the backups back to TiVo. They do need to be in a supported format, so you may need to transcode them, and yes you do need to copy them, but it can be done. I think the original poster mentioned .ISO

Re: [Discuss] Competition of broadband

2011-12-05 Thread edwardp
Jerry Feldman wrote: On 12/04/2011 05:14 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: My understanding of the spat between Curtatone and Verizon is that it stems from his opposition to Verizon's desire to negotiate video franchises on the state and not city

Re: [Discuss] Competition of broadband

2011-12-05 Thread Richard Pieri
On Dec 4, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Bill Horne wrote: Two words: time and materials. Verizon won't compete with Comcast for broadband, because they'd have to complete their network with today's labor rates. Say what?! Verizon has been very aggressively pushing FiOS. Perhaps not everywhere, but

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Rich Braun
Thanks for all the comments! One direction I've thought of going is DLNA front-end hardware to replace my somewhat-old Acer Revo front-ends. Now that those can be had in the $100 price range (and the functionality is increasingly getting built into TVs and BluRay players), it's only a matter of

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread David Kramer
On 12/05/2011 09:06 PM, Rich Braun wrote: sometimes other things). MythTV doesn't directly support PVR archival through its UI, but at least it's easy enough to 'mv' the files from its temp storage into a separate archival volume where it can be played through any other software. Sure it