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O'Reilly Builds a MythTV Box
enrico_suave writes "While the Broadcast Flag battle continues, it's still legal to put together your own HDTV PC HTPC/PVR. O'Reilly has posted part 1 in a series of articles describing the ins and outs of Building a MythTV Box" From the article: "For now, the good news is that it is still legal to put together your own home-theater PC. Parts are now cheap enough that it is no longer ridiculous to build a PC specifically to handle TV for you, much like the VCR in Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency..."
Bah. The broadcast flag will not make it illegal for you to build your own home-theater. How could they stop you from doing it? You just won't be able to record (or watch?) anything.
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There's a couple reasons to want to go DIY. Its not for everyone, but here they are:
1)I hate monthly fees. I refuse to pay them. I'd rather pay $100 up front than5 a month in fees.
2)Expandability. Want more RAM or another encoder? DIY just add it. Tivo- time to buy another Tivo
3)No comercials- Tivo is playing with adding commercials. My number 1 reason for buying one would be to kill commercials.
4)More (and easily expandable) storage. Add a RAID for reliability.
5)Additional features. You can pull any new feature when you want, and Myth is more than just a DVR (MythPhone, MythGames, etc)
6)The ability to do illegal stuff- like rent DVDs, and rip them to your hard drive for permanent sorage.
7)The ability to network it and add a file server. You may now watch your movie collection anywhere.
8)The ability to use 1 program for all media- music, video, and images.
9)No loss of features- you won't see disappearing features like 30 second skip.
I'm sure there's others people come up with as well. Tivo is nice hardware, but given the fact its subscription based and they're playing with commercials, its a no deal for me.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
In my recent quest to build a MythTV box, I have discovered that building the system is not the difficult part. The challenge has been to get MythTV running smooth and stable.
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[rant mode ON]
I think that it's a terrific project, I just wish that there was a little more consensus and standards between all these different components for the project. MythTV's compile reference system is Debian. The drivers for the HD-3000 are Red Hat/Fedora. Knoppmyth, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mandriva, all seem to have their little quirks - can't we all just get along?
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