[mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)

Andy Long andymyth at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 18:50:59 EST 2005


And, with my Mythbox finally running, I can really zoom in on whatever
bodypart gets exposed at half time this year.  As an added bonus, Tivo
won't even know I did it :-)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/03/television.tivo.reut/index.html




On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:40:58 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:39:24PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Harry Orenstein wrote:
> >
> > > The real question is: if Isaac posts version 0.17 on Friday or Saturday (or
> > > even early on Sunday) how many people will risk the upgrade and take the
> > > chance that they won't be able to record the Super Bowl (and all those new
> > > and innovative commercials)?    ;-)
> >
> > Some of us have no great desire to watch other people play games.
> >
> 
> I will be using Mythtv version 0.17 for my 3rd annual Superbowl commercials
> party.   Last 2 years it was the TIvo, this year it's HD.
> 
> At this party, we meet at 3pm and go for a hike while the box records
> a couple of hours of game.
> 
> Then we come back, watch the football at high speed and slow down to
> watch the commercials.
> 
> You have to totally reverse your normal remote control reflexes!
> 
> And it's great fun, and in fact last year I had to have a remote
> display and fill two floors of my house with guests, the party has
> gotten so popular.
> 
> Also, the football is perfectly watchable at the high speed, you can
> follow the game, slow down for interesting plays and watch last year's
> clutch finish in real time if you timed it perfectly.  Those who don't
> want to even see the football game compressed into 30 minutes can socialize
> elsewhere in the house.
> 
> This year the two floors will have independent control of the stream, which
> may be a good thing or may be a bad thing.  The living room will run off
> my frontend box, and the backend, which doesn't usually display TV, will
> temporarily run a frontend as well.
> 
> No easy way to have the two floors in sync with HDTV unless I had an ATSC
> transmitter or something like that.   Retransmitting the remote seems
> way too risky.
> 
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