[mythtv-users] LiveTV conflicts with scheduled recording - despite unused tuners on the same box!

[Simon Hobson]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

>Oh, and as for, "Channel surfers," try to convince them that the 
>chances of them accidentally sitting down at exactly the right time 
>to stumble upon the start of a show that's actually better than the 
>couple hundred recorded shows they've told MythTV they actually 
>/want/ to watch is probably close to the chances of their winning 
>the lottery.  Usually, channel surfing ends with someone's starting 
>to watch something that's "good enough" about 10-20 minutes after it 
>started airing.
>
>If those channel surfers spent that same channel-surfing time (or, 
>likely a tiny percentage of that channel-surfing time) setting up 
>recording schedules (i.e. do a movie search or a keyword search or a 
>genre search--or even just browse the EPG), then watching some 
>recording, they'd be able to sit down next time and watch /all/ of 
>that show whose end they would have accidentally stumbled upon while 
>channel surfing.

Whilst I agree mostly with what you say, and I hardly ever watch live 
TV now, just occasionally I do go channel surfing. And it's 
surprising how often I'll end up finding something I quite like but 
would never have considered watching based on title or description. 
Yes it's often half way through, but then I tend to watch stuff where 
that's not the end of the world.

At present I'm rather constrained as I having got a Myth frontend for 
the TV yet, and the old PowerBook I use with EyeTV doesn't have a 
particularly large HD. But I'm working on it as time and budget 
allows.

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