lazyweb: pvr research
Apr. 27th, 2008 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashHas anyone out there done any serious fiddling with MythTV or the other Tivo-like boxes out there? I'm looking at my mom's elaborate setup of three daisy-chained VCRs that she programs each week, and thinking there's got to be a better way to do this. Especially when one of them is starting to show some major tracking issues in stuff it records!
Her requirements:
* has to work with OVER-THE-AIR broadcast; she does NOT have cable and doesn't want it.
* must not need a subscription to a schedule-listing service (somehow I suspect this rules out anything but free software)
* needs to be able to record up to 3 streams at once. She has this many VCRs in play and does occasionally have them all going.
* needs to be forwards-compatible with the forthcoming change to digital broadcasting - we don't want this to become useless in feb09 when the analog signals go dark.
So what's your experiences? What've you tried playing with, what was hell to set up, what worked instantly?
OS doesn't matter; what matters is that she can run it without much more technical acumen than her existing setup requires. I won't be trying to implement this right now; I'd just love to hear what's worked for people.
Her requirements:
* has to work with OVER-THE-AIR broadcast; she does NOT have cable and doesn't want it.
* must not need a subscription to a schedule-listing service (somehow I suspect this rules out anything but free software)
* needs to be able to record up to 3 streams at once. She has this many VCRs in play and does occasionally have them all going.
* needs to be forwards-compatible with the forthcoming change to digital broadcasting - we don't want this to become useless in feb09 when the analog signals go dark.
So what's your experiences? What've you tried playing with, what was hell to set up, what worked instantly?
OS doesn't matter; what matters is that she can run it without much more technical acumen than her existing setup requires. I won't be trying to implement this right now; I'd just love to hear what's worked for people.
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Date: 2008-04-28 01:11 am (UTC)