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

[Tom Dexter]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Yeechang Lee<ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> Janne Grunau <janne-mythtv at grunau.be> says:
>> Numbers are visitors per 1000 capita.
>>
>> 1.  Australia        19,392    0.889
>> 2.  Sweden            6,149    0.664
>> 3.  Netherlands       7,550    0.458
>> 4.  Canada           14,460    0.429
>> 5.  United Kingdom   24,158    0.392
>> 6.  United States   119,664    0.390
>> 7.  Germany          21,348    0.260
>> 8.  Spain             5,544    0.119
>> 9.  France            6,806    0.109
>> 10. Italy             5,677    0.095
>
> I'm not surprised that the US is only in the middle of the pack; for
> many years TiVo subscriptions were only available in America, aside
> from a brief period in the UK. I'll bet more than one Australian here
> got started with digital video recording through a US TiVo modified to
> use the OzTiVo homegrown scheduling service. Even today, TiVo is only
> available in a few places outside the US
> (<URL:http://support.tivo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/40/session/L2F2LzEvc2lkL3FrRVhXOUNq>).
>
> Also, 90% of Americans get TV through cable or satellite as opposed to
> over-the-air, and I'll bet there isn't a single US cable/satellite
> provider that doesn't offer some horrible atrocity of a DVR-enabled
> settop box.
>
> --
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> Video inputs:           Four high-definition over FireWire/OTA
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Absolutely...complete with a hard drive with enough space for a small
handful of those nice reduced bitrate HD programs they sell you.  I
can't tell you how glad I am to be an OTA MythTV user...

Tom