[mythtv-users] Low end NUC as backend/frontend?

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:42 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:57:25AM -0500, Greg Thompson wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Those settings work well when just watching videos... the issue I have is
> > when I hit 'S' to bring up the guide and move around the live TV picture
> > pauses frequently. Also when I arrow up or down to bring up the On Screen
> > display the picture becomes jumpy.
> >
> > I know a lot of people on this list will say 'Your Doing it wrong, Myth
> is
> > most useful at recording blah blah' but for ultimate WAF I have to have
> > live TV viewing working well... She watches a lot of Channels that are no
> > good being recorded... (QVC, HSN etc)
>
>     Why bother feeding video through the PVR if you're just going to watch
> something like QVC? Just have a separate cable box on a different TV input.
> Anything else and you are squandering a tuner that could be hard at work
> recording stuff for you.
>
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I, for one, rent no cable boxes.  All seven TVs go through one Ceton tuner
card.  Live TV is every bit as important as the PVR function.  The idea of
a tuner only being for time shifting a recording is just short sighted.
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