PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, 2004 @09:04AM from the two-enter-one-leaves dept.

asciimonster writes "AnandTech has completed its second review of set-top box Personal Video Recorders. After checking out the Linux-based MythTV, previously covered here on slashdot, they compared it to Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. 'Our analysis has proved that though Media Center Edition 2004 is a boxed package that is easy to set up and configure, it looks amazingly beautiful, has great features such as On-Demand content, and is fully supported by Microsoft. However, for the enthusiast, MythTV takes the gold for its greater support for a variety of hardware and software codecs.'"

1 of 327 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Uh-huh... by gUmbi · 2004-09-16 09:18 · Score: 1, Flamebait

However, for the enthusiast, MythTV takes the gold for its greater support for a variety of hardware and software codecs.'"

Yeah, 'cause that's what I really care about when I'm wearing a nice ass-groove into the couch - that my codec is superior. Screw usability.