On Tue, January 15, 2008 8:29 am, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Controlling a sky box from mythtv is a fair challenge - you have to
> control it through an IR transmitter. You can't just plug a sky dish in
> and expect to decode everything... all you'll get are the Freeview
> channels.
>
> This may be
> Any thoughts and recommendations for hardware etc would be appreciated.
>
My wife has a Pioneer recorder which she is very happy with (she decided
to go that way because my son and I kept changinging our MythTV setup. (He
has now changed it to Windows media centre)
As Nick said the MythTV (or Wi
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:02:09 +1300
Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about getting a hard drive recorder to record stuff
> on TV.
>
> But I wanted to get some feedback from the resident mythtv experts on
> whether it would be better to build a MythTV media box instea
On Tue, January 15, 2008 12:17 am, Don Gould wrote:
>
>
> Nick Rout wrote:
>> There is a mythtvnz mailing list you may like to join, or just look at
>> the
>> archives
> Make sure you call your ISP and upgrade your data cap first... that's a
> busy mailing list!
No its not it is quite quiet reall
Nick Rout wrote:
There is a mythtvnz mailing list you may like to join, or just look at the
archives
Make sure you call your ISP and upgrade your data cap first... that's a
busy mailing list!
+1 for myth-tv over HDD recorder or a mysky box.
The flexability and upgradeability is worth it.
I
On Mon, January 14, 2008 5:02 pm, Phill Coxon wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about getting a hard drive recorder to record stuff
> on TV.
>
> But I wanted to get some feedback from the resident mythtv experts on
> whether it would be better to build a MythTV media box instead.
>
> I'd like to:
>
>
Have you looked at getting a first-gen Tivo off Ebay? I understand that
they are more hackable than the later models.
Paul Swafford wrote:
Phil .. info on the hard drive recorder option.
Sky digital decoders have the option to "book" programs from the guide
- it works rather well .. if you're
Phil .. info on the hard drive recorder option.
Sky digital decoders have the option to "book" programs from the guide -
it works rather well .. if you're using a "recorder" connected to the
decoder then just set the start time as per the program guide ..
I have my HDD recorder set for line 1 .
I've been thinking about getting a hard drive recorder to record stuff
on TV.
But I wanted to get some feedback from the resident mythtv experts on
whether it would be better to build a MythTV media box instead.
I'd like to:
* Record TV from my Sky decoder.
* Have some way to schedule and au
