[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR will not initially support Linux

lemongecko at gmail.com lemongecko at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 16:37:48 UTC 2008


On 4/8/08, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote:
> ...Instead of saying "what is it designed to
> do?" we follow up with "and what can I make it do that it doesn't currently
> do?"  The stigma from hollywood and others is, if you aren't using it for
> what it was intended to do, you must be wanting to steal it.

"Hack the planet!" ;-)

I think it's even more simple than you suggest. I believe for many
it's the desire for content delivery on a powerful platform that
allows us to view media on our own terms. That flexible delivery
completely undermines corporate ability to control who has media and
how it's watched. If we can take our HDTV recordings, cut / slice /
dice / transcode them to our iPhones, how in the world will they sell
it to you twice? ;-)

I can't wait for the 1212 to get support. It may singlehandedly make
the "death of Myth in the US" moot by simplifying content retrieval
from satallite & digital cable alike. And it won't be alone. Unless
some large media company has the cojones to try and get an injunction
on sales of such devices (not likely with the number of legal uses to
which these devices can be put), I'd wager in another year we'll see
similar devices from Pinnacle, DViCo & Kworld.

Right now I don't have a single digital cable box. I'll gladly pick up
TWO of them if it means I can watch the content I pay for on my terms.
Hell, I might even pay for Showtime.


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