[mythtv-users] Potential IPTV additions for Myth

[Robert Johnston]

On 1/26/06, Dave Bixler <dbixler at wbs-wireless.com> wrote:
> An awesome idea if I must say so -- that is if I completely understand
> what you're proposing :).

I'm proposing that, for those people who have an IPTV television
provider, rather than having to have a STB hooked up to the network to
decode the IPTV stream, then an analogue card hooked into that STB to
re-encode the video (with the problems of losing HDTV, having to go
the analog realm to record, and having to have several STB's (And
several capture cards) to record multiple channels), the Myth box can
plug into the network and recieve the IPTV streams, recording them
digitally (So no loss of quality, and no loss of HDTV), and be able to
recieve/record multiple channels simultaneously.

In other words, instead of having an IPTV Box as well as your Myth
box, you'll just have your Myth box doing all the IPTV functions.

It also means that, If we can grab and parse the Program Guide info,
we can run a Myth IPTV box without the need for a DataDirect/XMLTV
subscription.
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Robert "Anaerin" Johnston