When you get within 3 feet of the television you start noticing that it looks like the screen is under water, kinda like the way a Jpeg breaks up. I believe it is usually due to the progressive scan-NTSC conversion but I may be wrong. My AIW cards had it as did the Telly that I stuck in a closet after wasting 1000+, and so does my SageTV box with the Hauppauge card in it. I am still searching for a good card for my new Myth box and I wanted to check out the Theater550Pro chipset from ATI as it brags about the elimination of those artifacts. Maybe I'll have to check out your card. I just want it right so that when I feed it into my DLP Proj and blow it up to 11feet wide it still looks good.
I bought a Telly and it was the biggest POS! It crashed alot, took forever to boot up, had artifacts in the video, and was generally weak on the hardware side. The menus were clunky as well. I DO NOT recommend this unit to anyone, especially at $1000.00+
If I have read this right, Myth is still free. There is no elimination of choices, just an additional one. I personally think that 5.00 a month is dirt cheap as I currently pay over 10.00 for Tivo and they data-mine my preferences and force me to watch things I don't want to. They then sell that info to advertisers and I don't get anything back, plus I pay twice as much as this offer with Myth.
I have to stop reading this crap cuz I'm getting pretty worked up. ALL OF THE MONEY TIVO MAKES GOES TO TIVO TO HELP SOMEONE GET RICH! These guys want to help US to make our apps BETTER!!! Both Donovan and Isaac have already stated that they like the company's plans and yet we all keep bashing it. Either you guys are soooooo cheap that 17 pennies a day will kill you, or you are impossible to please. I now realize that half of us OS guys actually do it so that we can use outdated cheap ass hand me down hardware to get by on a free OpSys, and the other half like myself do it so that with good hardware I can have a screaming puter that crushes any windblows system. Pony up to the bar and buy a drink or get out of the establishment!
My Tivo costs over 10.00 a month. Maybe with the money from the subscriptions they will make Myth actually easy to setup and operate and then you won't have anything to WHINE about!!!
I'll do it just to help out Myth even if I got nothing in exchange. Everytime some idiot buys Windblows, they fund Microsoft's continued domination and yet we aren't willing to pony up a little to help fight the fight! I don't get it. We are all the first to line up and scream OS over and over, but we aren't willing to put up when an opportunity arises! We can't have it both ways. Either we are on the open source side and we support the battle or we are just observers. Who do you want to be?
I burn 2-4 candy bars a session when I'm coding, and countless cans of DP. If I told you that by giving two candy bars a week to MythTV, we could polish it into the true omniscient media solution that we all want, would you do it? That is the cost. In exchange we get a company that, unlike most, puts money back into open source, hates MS, and worked with the devs instead of hijacking the app for their own commercial gain! These guys are willing to pay for something they could have gotten for free and make it better for all of us!!!! They were the first to pay for something that they could have gotten for free, and now they are offering a solution that benefits us and we all throw stones and ask for a discount! I'll bet they could offer it for $30.00 a year if they keep all of the money for themselves instead of funding open source development, is that what you guys want????
I have been following this for awhile and waiting for Myth and Linux to be ready for primetime! I think it's really close to satisfying all of the features you listed with the new 18.1 release and the Tribune data thing (www.2CPU.com). I need to bite the bullet and build one now and see how it handles HDTV through the vidcard and compression engines. If that is a solid then this thing is about to stomp all over Windows MCE!!!!
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When you get within 3 feet of the television you start noticing that it looks like the screen is under water, kinda like the way a Jpeg breaks up. I believe it is usually due to the progressive scan-NTSC conversion but I may be wrong. My AIW cards had it as did the Telly that I stuck in a closet after wasting 1000+, and so does my SageTV box with the Hauppauge card in it. I am still searching for a good card for my new Myth box and I wanted to check out the Theater550Pro chipset from ATI as it brags about the elimination of those artifacts. Maybe I'll have to check out your card. I just want it right so that when I feed it into my DLP Proj and blow it up to 11feet wide it still looks good.
I bought a Telly and it was the biggest POS! It crashed alot, took forever to boot up, had artifacts in the video, and was generally weak on the hardware side. The menus were clunky as well. I DO NOT recommend this unit to anyone, especially at $1000.00+
Does the PVR-x50 still have the artifacts due to the video conversion that all the other cards I have seen do?
Sorry, I was living in my alternate reality again. Back to the real world and pleasing some of the people some of the time.
If I have read this right, Myth is still free. There is no elimination of choices, just an additional one. I personally think that 5.00 a month is dirt cheap as I currently pay over 10.00 for Tivo and they data-mine my preferences and force me to watch things I don't want to. They then sell that info to advertisers and I don't get anything back, plus I pay twice as much as this offer with Myth.
I have to stop reading this crap cuz I'm getting pretty worked up. ALL OF THE MONEY TIVO MAKES GOES TO TIVO TO HELP SOMEONE GET RICH! These guys want to help US to make our apps BETTER!!! Both Donovan and Isaac have already stated that they like the company's plans and yet we all keep bashing it. Either you guys are soooooo cheap that 17 pennies a day will kill you, or you are impossible to please. I now realize that half of us OS guys actually do it so that we can use outdated cheap ass hand me down hardware to get by on a free OpSys, and the other half like myself do it so that with good hardware I can have a screaming puter that crushes any windblows system. Pony up to the bar and buy a drink or get out of the establishment!
My Tivo costs over 10.00 a month. Maybe with the money from the subscriptions they will make Myth actually easy to setup and operate and then you won't have anything to WHINE about!!!
I'll do it just to help out Myth even if I got nothing in exchange. Everytime some idiot buys Windblows, they fund Microsoft's continued domination and yet we aren't willing to pony up a little to help fight the fight! I don't get it. We are all the first to line up and scream OS over and over, but we aren't willing to put up when an opportunity arises! We can't have it both ways. Either we are on the open source side and we support the battle or we are just observers. Who do you want to be?
I burn 2-4 candy bars a session when I'm coding, and countless cans of DP. If I told you that by giving two candy bars a week to MythTV, we could polish it into the true omniscient media solution that we all want, would you do it? That is the cost. In exchange we get a company that, unlike most, puts money back into open source, hates MS, and worked with the devs instead of hijacking the app for their own commercial gain! These guys are willing to pay for something they could have gotten for free and make it better for all of us!!!! They were the first to pay for something that they could have gotten for free, and now they are offering a solution that benefits us and we all throw stones and ask for a discount! I'll bet they could offer it for $30.00 a year if they keep all of the money for themselves instead of funding open source development, is that what you guys want????
I have been following this for awhile and waiting for Myth and Linux to be ready for primetime! I think it's really close to satisfying all of the features you listed with the new 18.1 release and the Tribune data thing (www.2CPU.com). I need to bite the bullet and build one now and see how it handles HDTV through the vidcard and compression engines. If that is a solid then this thing is about to stomp all over Windows MCE!!!!