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

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.'"

Comments

The barbarians have won

[Colonel Cholling]

AnandTech has completed it's second review

It's official. I'm the last surviving human who knows how to use an apostrophe properly.

Re:The barbarians have won

[rumpledstiltskin]

h3wat are you tlaking about? Iv'e always used aspotrophes right

Re:The barbarians have won

[og_sh0x]

A good time to bring out BTAF's guide to the apostrophe, YOU IDIOTS!

Re:The barbarians have won

[ratpack91]

It is all very well knowing the grammar but you can't spell. It's sentence, not sentance.

Re:The barbarians have won

[jone_stone]

I'm astounded that no one has mentioned what seems to me to be a more apparent mistake: the one in the title!

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

Unless this title means to refer to a Head-to-Head posessed by a single PVR, or even by the class of objects known as PVR (both of which wouldn't make much sense in this context), there shouldn't be an apostrophe in that title. We're talking multiple PVRs -- posessiveness doesn't come into it.

Of course, all this is kind of pedantic. Language rules like these were semi-arbitrarily decided upon two or three hundred years ago. We all know from context what the author of the submission meant. It's a rare circumstance when there's actually any ambiguity in context. Consider that "there," "their," and "they're" are pronounced exactly the same as each other, but we almost never need disambiguation when we speak.

-David

Re:Myth install

[CreatureComfort]

Besides, I'm currently drunk.
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Given the MS's reputation I truly hate to say this, but if this is what MCE 2004 really is, then I'm a potential customer

Obviously drunk. And not only will he wake up in the morning with a DRM'd DVR, but the woman sleeping on his arm will be really ugly.