[mythtv-users] Is it going to get harder and harder to get the content we want in MythTV?

Allen Edwards allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 16:20:34 UTC 2008


Easy for me to say because I have a good antenna and can get the
stations, but switching to OTA seems like a solution to the problem
you outline.  About 7% of the population gets TV OTA so there are a
ton of people who can get OTA but use cable.   That must apply to a
lot of mythTV users.  I canceled my Dish Networks when I got MythTv
working.  No regrets.

We miss FoodTV but America's test kitchen is really good.  I would
miss The Daily Show, but you can get it online.

What we need is better integration of online content into MythTV.
Then more and more people will say goodbye and good riddens to Cable

Allen




On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Johnny Russ <jruss at mit.edu> wrote:
> The recent posts about Blu-ray, and this announcement today from Microsoft
> (Microsoft PBDA platform), bring up the ominous feeling I have had for some
> time that it is going to get more and more difficult to get the content I
> want in MythTV. I quote from the link:
>
> "In short, this system enables the "PC-TV hardware ecosystem to integrate
> virtually any free or premium TV service into Windows Media Center," which
> keeps content guardians ultra-stoked while giving consumers more choice when
> it comes to TV tuning. Essentially, PBDA gives OEMs and tuner-makers the
> ability to develop and ship wares for WMC "regardless of geographic location
> or television standard."
>
> I would rather not have the discussion turn into a Microsoft bashing
> session, but I would rather like to know where people see MythTV going over
> the next 10 or 15 years as the platforms for TV distribution go through the
> changes we see coming. It seems to me that, excluding OTA content, all the
> rest of the content is heading into protected, encrypted platforms. I have
> never been pleased with the setup of recieving a digital signal, then
> letting the cable box decode that to an analog signal, just so I can
> re-encode it again. But it seems like even that will become more
> problematic, rather than easier, as things move forward. Are MythTV users
> always going to be stuck hacking various devices to get something half way
> decent? Or is there any hope that MythTV could integrate into one of these
> new delivery systems like Tru2Way, one of these MS PBDA cards, or whatever
> it is that comes along?
>
>
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