On 4/28/2010 8:55 AM, Brian Phillips wrote: > David Litster wrote: > >> Unless your wife has a one-strike rule with technology. >> Unfortunately, mine does. It has made her adoption of MythTV very >> very interesting, to say the least. >> > Simple rule to live by: If it's not broke, don't go hacking it... > > I am still running 0.21 because I don't know how my setup will handle 0.23. > My guess is I'll run 0.21 for a couple more years, until I can afford > "development hardware" that will allow me to upgrade in an environment where > she doesn't depend on it. > > She loves commercial skip and the pause button and can't imagine life > without them, so I'm happy. Oh, and the kids' DVDs being just a touch of a > remote button away. > > Brian > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > Brian, I agree 1000%. Unfortunately, sometimes the chafiness of MythTV's brain-dead handling and browsing of Music, Movies and other Internet content, ESPECIALLY when compared with Boxee and XBMC make me long for some sort of Frankenstein MythTV/Boxee Mutant, sort of like this guy: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/7/76/Zombie_poison.jpg
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE MythTV's scheduling and timeshifting capabilities, but the other features are definitely not workable on the 'mythical' ten-foot metaphor. -David Litster, vagrant -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
