[mythtv-users] mythtv keeping recordings of everything i watch?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:44:37PM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Tell that to my 9 year old who only watches TV when she's bored and
>> isn't very discriminating about what she watches. Sure, she has her
>> favorite shows she records to make sure there's something there to
>> watch, but sometimes she gets bored with those and likes to flip on
>> Nick or the Disney Channel, etc. and watch whatever happens to be on.
>> LiveTV makes that easy for her. You can't tell a 9 year old, "You
>> don't grasp the concept of MythTV. You're using it wrong." when she
>> is watching TV just fine in her eyes.
>
> I'm not sure you can tell a 9 year old much of anything.
>
> Though in fact, over time I expect they will come to understand,
> and be smarter about it than their parents.   The web is for
> surfing and randomly looking for something interesting.  The
> TV box is for sitting down for a program.    That could well
> become the attitude of the future.
>
> I stopped most surfing when I moved to Tivo (which is much faster
> at it than my myth box) and almost entirely when I moved to myth.
> In party the fact that Myth sucked at actual surfing -- with multi- 
> second
> channel change times, forcing me to move it to surf only listings --
> helped with that.   Now I surf perhaps once every few months.
> Really don't miss it.    Of course not everybody is exactly like me,
> but there's the potential for a shift here.

A shift for everyone to be exactly like you? That's not very open- 
source minded. ;)