[mythtv-users] MythTV production run

[Bryan Halter]

As much as I love MythTV $20/month or $240/year seems a bit steep.  One
of the main reasons I built my myth box was to avoid paying the TiVO
user fee.  If you took the whole userbase out there and collected a buck
or two per month (I'm assuming there's a fair userbase from the number
of people on that list) from all of them I don't think you'd get much of
an argument.  2 bucks a month is still 1k per month per 500 users,  I
don't know about the rest of you but I built a pretty slick myth box for
about 500 bucks.

just my $.02
Bryan
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 23:57, Larry Howe wrote:
> I think the three most important things about getting more people to use linux
> (e.g. MythTV) are volume, volume, and volume. After volume, the next three most
> important things are ownership, privacy, and privacy.
> 
> Someone did mention volume and how there may not be too much advantage to more
> volume. I have a bit of a counterexample. I made some custom hardware a few
> years back and I could only break even when I made a couple at a time. When I
> did get an order for 20 or so at once, then I could turn a profit. This is of
> course a classic chicken and egg problem, more people don't use it because more
> people don't use it, etc.
> 
> In terms of ownership and privacy, this is something I think needs to be
> emphasized more in all linux advocacy. Someone mentioned digeo.com on here and
> how it is "the competition" for MythTV. It is not the competition for MythTV.
> If you look at the digeo literature you'll see that it not only monitors your
> viewing, it then cleverly inserts targeted advertisements INTO THE NAVIGATION
> MENUS. So it is only the competition for people who don't mind that sort of
> thing.
> 
> For me personally, maybe it's my age, but I've had one too many ads fed to me,
> and I don't want more of them popping up in new places. How many people would
> be willing to spend $20 per month for a supported MythTV that has more
> features, and isn't trying to sell them stuff? And would $20 per sub per month
> be enough to support a business of supporting mythtv boxes?
> 
> I would be willing to put up some money (but not all the money) to support a
> short production run (20 boxes maybe?). I can also help with sales and
> marketing but someone else would
> have to do the design and offer the support. My feeling is we would have to hit
> near the $300 price point to even be able to sell 20. Any takers?
> 
> Larry
> 
> Quoting sukeband at vzavenue.net:
> 
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I know the subject of selling commercial mythtv boxes has
> > been probably talked about to death, but I’d hate to see
> > talents and skill of the major developers on this, go
> > unrewarded monetarily. I’ve been playing around with the
> > software for a few months now and, I feel like it's nothing
> > short of brilliant.
> >
> > Is anyone adverse to the idea of marketing prebuilt systems
> > and having any some of generated go to the major developers?
> > Does anyone see a fairly large market for these? If this is
> > the case, I don’t see a problem taking advantage of that, if
> > it went towards the betterment of the players in the
> > community, especially the people that made this project
> > possible?
> >
> > What are your thoughts on this guys?
> >
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> 
> 
> 
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