[mythtv-users] Best simple/cheap Front End?

[jarpublic at gmail.com]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Scott Baker <scott.baker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, jason bright <jaybright at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For size, an AppleTV looks pretty tough to beat. But there are quite a
> few
> > cheapy uPNP compatible boxes floating around as well.
>
> Am I missing something? Doesn't a box need a little more than just
> UPNP support to act as a mythfrontend?
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No, not for some definitions of frontend. You can playback your videos and
recordings over UPnP, which is good enough for some folks in some
situations. However, you would be missing most of the other capabilities of
a true frontend, e.g. commercial skip, scheduling, settings, etc.
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