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MythTV Compared with Windows Media Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the apples-and-kumquats dept.

legoburner writes "Tom's Hardware has a nice comparison of MythTV and Windows Media Center Edition, and it seems that they preferred MythTV by quite a margin: 'Enter MythTV, a grand unification of personal digital video recording and home theatre technology, and a magnum opus of modular design, freedom of expression and personal entertainment.'"

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  1. Re:what would be really nice by gregorio · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It's called KnoppMyth

    http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
    It would be much better if the original package was well developed, without the need of hand-made configuration and detection scripts inside some custom-made boot cd. KnnopMyth (and all other specific bootable CDs) is just a lame fix for a bigger problem: lack of application quality.

    It's time to put the computer to work for us, instead of the opposite. We need programs with better configuration handling and detection. A lot of Linux apps need the user to insert of lot of data that the application could simply obtain automatically.

    Why it doesn't? Because there is not a planned structure to accomodate this kind of automation. Those softwares grow by being appended with more and more code, wih no global planning at all.

    Need a XYZ functionality? Ok, I'll just append it to the codebase. Why bother planning a good structure to provide abstraction to accomodate these kind of features in an organized way? It's Linux, right?

    If the kernel can't even manage to have a HAL, why the hell would the applications bother to organize and plan the code?