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Download.png RELEASE - It was over 18 months in the making, but MythTV version 0.21 has finally been released. See the Release Notes for a list of changes from 0.21. You can download it from here, or look here or here for precompiled binary packages for your OS distribution. --GBee 23:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - After a couple years of fiddling with HD hardware and transcoding programs, I have written up a best-practices article on my user page. Hopefully that will save people a few hours. --TugBoat 22:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Blogger logo.gif BLOG - I recently wrote up a little howto on building a truely beautiful and space-efficient MythTV media center from a Mac Mini and an Apple Cinema Display. --Martin Rehfeld 14:14, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Blogger logo.gif BLOG - Jeffery Swan has started a blog about his Ultimate MythTV system, which seems worthy of the title to me... I despair of describing it succinctly, but it has 10TB of storage, a 24-port GigE switch, and something like 20 machines attached to it, along with 8 security cameras.... --Baylink 18:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Download.png RELEASE - MythBuntu 7.10 is released --Kichigai Mentat 05:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Reviews.gif REVIEW - Matt Hartley compares MythTV to LinuxMCE and throws in the topic of capturing digital cable. He likes how the MythTV community has bent over backwards to support capturing content, and indicates it is MythTV or nothing for the time being. --Gregturn 15:33, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - Is commercial skipping illegal? [http://www.news.com/Web+ad+blocking+may+not+be+entirely+legal/2100-1030_3-6207936.html C

Reviews.gif REVIEW - Slashdot points to an article at Linux.com comparing MythDora, Mythbuntu, and KnoppMyth. --Baylink 18:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


Download.png RELEASE - MythTV v0.20.2 has been tagged for release today, Friday 24th August 2007 (GMT). The official release announcement and download links will follow shortly. This bug fix release includes support for the new Schedules Direct service which replaces Zap2It. For a list of changes and bugs addressed by this release see the changelog at Release Notes - 0.20.2 and Release Notes - 0.20.1 --GBee 18:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


Important.png FLASH - Chris Petersen announces the formation of Easy TV Data (later renamed Schedules Direct) to replace Zap2it's Data Direct. More to follow. --Baylink 14:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Important.png FLASH - Tribune Media/Zap2It announced they're discontinuing Data Direct listings just in time for the new TV season; details everywhere. The developer team is working on a possible solution; updates will be here. --Baylink 15:37, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - Slashdot links to a compare between MythTV and Vista MCE. --Michel 09:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - Slashdot links to a three-part screencast of the installation, configuration and setup of MythDora 4, running atop Fedora Core 6. "If you have had problem installing MythTV in the past due to hardware compatibility issues, it might be time to give it another chance." --Baylink 02:37, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - Linux.com has HDTV reception and network streaming in a box. --Malban 14:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Money.jpg PLEDGE - A pledge drive to support the implementation of recording of multiple channels from one DVB multiplex is running until April 20, 2007. akaihola 16:54, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - PC Magazine Nederland has written (in the Dutch language!) two articles about MythTV: Mediacenters onder Linux (1) Uw eigen Personal Video Recorder and Mediacenteroplossingen onder Linux (2) Uw eigen Personal Video Recorder. --Michel 16:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - DVR Playground compares MythTV and Tivo Series 3 in the Battle of Open Source and Proprietary DVRs on 13 February 2007 --dswimboy 17:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper.jpg ARTICLE - Time Magazine runs an article on that newfangled box you can stick next to your TV set. The device is the VCR. The date? Christmas 1984. --Baylink 18:05, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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