Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-04 Thread Erik Pettersen
> > As Bjorn said, the US pre-built system can be found at: > http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=44 > FWIW: I stumbled across this in my google news alerts for mythtv yesterday: http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/03/1327249 http://www.hackmyth.com/ E. -- http://www.byopvr.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-03 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mike Ryan wrote: I now have the persentation available online for download at http://www.londoncrime.org/presentation I claim no sort of copyright or any of that rubbish on any of this, so feel free to re-cycle/re-use. Shouldn't that be under the Creative Commons licence. ;) Mike

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Ryan
Quoting Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting Björn Svartengren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dewey Smolka wrote: I was a bit curious though when you mentioned businesses selling pre-built Myth systems and Myth accessories. I've seen systems for sale on ebay and such, and have seen some pretty poorl

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Ryan
Quoting Björn Svartengren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dewey Smolka wrote: I was a bit curious though when you mentioned businesses selling pre-built Myth systems and Myth accessories. I've seen systems for sale on ebay and such, and have seen some pretty poorly disguised Myth systems sold through dod

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-03 Thread Björn Svartengren
Dewey Smolka wrote: I was a bit curious though when you mentioned businesses selling pre-built Myth systems and Myth accessories. I've seen systems for sale on ebay and such, and have seen some pretty poorly disguised Myth systems sold through dodgy web sites, but am unaware of any (legitimate)

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-02 Thread Dewey Smolka
Nice job, Mike. I think you hit on a number of great points, especially the DRM and the fact that a person can build a Myth box out of parts that would otherwise be thrown away. I built my first one on an AMD K-6 2 -- not a very functional system but I just wanted to prove to myself that I could g

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-02 Thread Mike Ryan
MM, Tivo deserted the UK market a while back to concentrate on selling out in the US, so I'm not too worried! Cheers Mike Quoting Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 10/2/05, Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All Yesterday, I gave a presentation on MythTV at WSFII (World Summit o

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-02 Thread Mercury Morris
On 10/2/05, Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi AllYesterday, I gave a presentation on MythTV at WSFII (World Summit on FreeInformation Infrastructures - http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/). Execellent, Mike! Hearing MythTV described, contrasted with Tivo, and questioned "warmed the cockles of me wee

[mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-02 Thread Mike Ryan
Hi All Yesterday, I gave a presentation on MythTV at WSFII (World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures - http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/). For those interested, the talk is available to download from here: http://nodel.org/wsfii/wsfii-day1-audio/wsfii-03-OpenHw.mp3 (The recording is a bit poor in

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-18 Thread Dirk Aust
Hi all, I think we shouldn't make too much publicity on MythTV, mayby the content industry tries to outlaw it! And they have the power to do that! Regards, Am Samstag, 17. September 2005 21:15 schrieb Mike Ryan: > All > > I recently gave a presentation on MythTV at Open Tech 2005 > (http://www.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-18 Thread Mike Ryan
Quoting Dewey Smolka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If I may make a suggestion.. Make a statement or two about the freedom MythTV offers. When I was looking at building or buying a PVR, I made the decision to go with Myth primarily for the reason that I expected the recording industry lobbyists and adver

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-18 Thread Dewey Smolka
> If I may make a suggestion.. Make a statement or two about the freedom > MythTV offers. When I was looking at building or buying a PVR, I made > the decision to go with Myth primarily for the reason that I expected > the recording industry lobbyists and advertisers to ruin the commercial > PVRs.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-18 Thread Michael Starks
Mike Ryan wrote: > It'll only be a short presentation (10 minutes or so probably), so there's > only > a limited amount of high-level information I'll be able to get across. > However, > there's a QA session afterwards as well. If I may make a suggestion.. Make a statement or two about the free

SV: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-18 Thread Marius Schrecker
>Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users->[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av Mike Ryan >Sendt: 17. september 2005 21:16 >Til: Discussion about mythtv >Emne: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation > >All > >I recently gave a presentation on MythTV at Open Tech 2005 &g

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-17 Thread Nick
On 17/09/05, Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All > > I recently gave a presentation on MythTV at Open Tech 2005 > (http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/) and have now been invited > to speak at the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures which is > taking place on Satu

[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-17 Thread Mike Ryan
All I recently gave a presentation on MythTV at Open Tech 2005 (http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/) and have now been invited to speak at the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures which is taking place on Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd of October at Limehouse Town Hall in Eas

[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation at the GTALUG Metting on July 12th, 2005

2005-07-07 Thread Colin Smillie
Hi, I'm doing a presentation on MythTV at the GTALUG ( Greater Toronto Area ) on July 12th, 2005. More details are available here: http://www.gtalug.org/index.php/Meetings:2005-07 Thanks, Colin Smillie http://colin.smillie.ca ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-18 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:57:08AM +0800, Max Waterman wrote: > Brad Templeton wrote: > > >Myth and Tivo and the rest are > >still largely schedule oriented for non-series -- browse the movies and > >shows that are on the schedule for the next two weeks regularly, and pick > >shows to record. I wa

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-17 Thread Max Waterman
Brad Templeton wrote: Myth and Tivo and the rest are still largely schedule oriented for non-series -- browse the movies and shows that are on the schedule for the next two weeks regularly, and pick shows to record. I wanted to reverse that -- list all the movies you are interested in watching, and

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-05 Thread stephen
Matt Mencel wrote: Excellent...this what I'm looking for. To me MythTV means commercial free TV watching consumer empowerment, my kids ALWAYS have something recorded that's ok for them to watch. To some, it's the "coolness" or "technology/geek" factor of just how MythTV looks/works. To another i

[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-04 Thread Matt Mencel
and then going and making it happen...can't do that with Tivo! Thanks All... Matt > -Original Message- > From: Brad Templeton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:14 PM > To: Andy Long; Discussion about mythtv > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread Kendric Beachey
One cool thing you might mention is the ease of adding more hard drive space. With things like TiVo it can be done, but it's pretty dicey and voids your warranty. With Myth, you can just add another hard drive like with any computer, and with LVM you can even make it look seamless to the system.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:48:57PM -0600, Andy Long wrote: > Some other things you might mention: > -Ability to configure the frontend to have a multitude of different > themes. Can really make your box "stand out" as opposed to the more > generic Tivo/Replay themes Yet from a technology standpoi

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:48:57 -0600, Andy Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some other things you might mention: > > -Ability to configure the frontend to have a multitude of different > themes. Can really make your box "stand out" as opposed to the more > generic Tivo/Replay themes > > -Ability t

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread Andy Long
Some other things you might mention: -Ability to configure the frontend to have a multitude of different themes. Can really make your box "stand out" as opposed to the more generic Tivo/Replay themes -Ability to add multiple capture cards to record 2, 3 or more shows at a time. The most I've ev

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread David
Given the other thread: "The Broadcast Flag and other tales of corruption and greed" "The USA, a Disney(tm) country" ?? David Matt Mencel wrote: Hi all...kind of a strange request but... I've been running MythTV for a few months now thanks to everyone on the MythTV/IVTV lists and Jared's setup gu

[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Mencel
Hi all...kind of a strange request but... I've been running MythTV for a few months now thanks to everyone on the MythTV/IVTV lists and Jared's setup guide. It's working great, and even my wife(who hates it when I work on some new project and "change" things on her) has had nothing but great thin