[mythtv-users] (US) Dump Comcast for a dish, good Mythtv decision?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Mon Aug 31 19:20:12 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:58:26PM -0500, David Schlenk wrote:
> >    I've been using IR blasters "since the dawn of time". I have used them
> > with landline monopolies (analog and digital) as well as Dish and DTV. I
> > have found the Dish boxes to be the most problematic. The older boxes that
> > I used had the nasty habit of "getting hung up" if you tried to tune in an
> > invalid channel. They would throw up a dialog box that required human
> > intervention to get past.
> >
> 
> You just have to make your channel change script capable of handling

   ...another point in favor of MythTV.

   When I was a Dish customer I was also a Tivo user and I didn't have
the option of tweaking this myself.

> that. This plagued me a lot at the beginning of my Dish subscription
> but I've got it pretty well worked out now. The annoying things now
> are that sometimes in the middle of a movie airing in the middle of
> the night the box downloads updates and reboots itself. I curse, shake
> my fist at Charlie and then delete and rerecord. That and sometimes
> the STB overheats and I lose video until I reboot it.
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