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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. Bad title! by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) Its an article about MythTV which doesn't even really mention MS Media Center except in one small table at the very end
    2) The table mentioned above compares Myth against MCE 2004 not MCE 2005 which has been out forever, MCE 2005 R2 which has been out for some time, or Vista which is almost here.

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  2. Article in a nutshell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Features in MythTV that are not in Windows MCE 2004:
    - Open Source; free to obtain, use, and modify
    - Software and hardware decoding support
    - Output to DivX and MPEG2
    - Runs on Linux and MacOS, feeds to Windows (Windows MCE runs on -- guess what -- Windows only!)
    - Ultra-low system requirements
    - Support for companion and third-party plug-ins
    - Scalable network architecture (master/slaves) (MCE has only basic TCP/IP support)
    - Record once, transcode and play anywhere (in MCE you can only record and play using the same device)

    Features in Windows MCE not in MythTV:
    - Simple setup and configuration

    Guess which one will have the biggest market share?

  3. Re:what would be really nice by York+the+Mysterious · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's called KnoppMyth

    http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html

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  4. Re:what would be really nice by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Informative

    What would be really cool is if some company pulled a Red Hat, or Suse, etc., with MythTV whereby they offer their "version" of a MythTV distribution bundled with hardware and all

    There are a couple of small vendors who do this already. The systems all seem to be priced to compete with the various Commercial PVR-type systems -- $600-1200.

    While searching for Ubuntu & MythTV, I ran into https://monolithmc.com/, who I ships a computer preloaded with MythTV & Ubuntu.

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