Save me from MythTV.

[Brian Cluff]

On 08/29/2014 09:50 AM, Matt Birkholz wrote:
> Given the example of Tivo, THIS is how Myth schedules?  They lost me.

I have 2 Tivos, and I have dumped both of them in favor of my MythTV. 
Of course I use dedicated machines running the graphical frontend so my 
experience is a bit different than the way you are running it.  I'm 
guessing that with your new purchase of schedules direct that you will 
be able to just tell it to record shows by title and be done with it. 
The really nice thing is that Myth remembers all the shows your have 
ever watch and won't record them again unless told to do so. So unlike 
tivo it won't re-record old shows over again after a few months when it 
forget that it recorded it already.

> Thanks for the pointer.  I am subscribing right now.  I paid more than
> that for the LxMsuite.com service 90 years (9 years) ago, but it was
> eventually abused to death.  Here's hoping the headaches of running
> schedulesdirect.com are well compensated.

A few years ago if was possible to get the same service for free from 
Zap2it by just answering a couple of survey questions a year... they 
were really basic questions too like "How much do you like SciFi", but 
like you said, people eventually abused it and started selling 
pre-installed mythtv machines tied to free accounts.  Thankfully the 
Myth guys started schedulesdirect and sell access to it at cost.

Brian Cluff