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This refers to one of two things;
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A colloquial term to refer to your computer that runs MythTV (usually a combined front-end/back-end). This stems from the common (among geeks, at least) practice of calling a computer a "box". Example: "I just added more ram to my Mythbox."
  
Just another random term for the artifact you get when you mate MythTV software, an operating system, one or more tuner cards, and some storage.
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A python script for XBMC which provides a small subset of frontend functionality. MythBox provides a user interface to MythTV recordings and television as an extension to the popular XBMC (http://xbmc.org/) media software (http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/)
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Latest revision as of 20:15, 23 May 2009

This refers to one of two things; A colloquial term to refer to your computer that runs MythTV (usually a combined front-end/back-end). This stems from the common (among geeks, at least) practice of calling a computer a "box". Example: "I just added more ram to my Mythbox."

A python script for XBMC which provides a small subset of frontend functionality. MythBox provides a user interface to MythTV recordings and television as an extension to the popular XBMC (http://xbmc.org/) media software (http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/)