IR receiver to IR transmitter over cat 5 to control the DVR. So, I really don't need to spend the money on front end systems in each of those rooms.
I have my house wired with audio/video/cat5 jacks in each room. otherwise the cost of cable isn't worth it). It works well enough (the only way I can even attempt to watch the few shows I'm interested in viewing on my schedule. Rather than fight the system, and spend the money on tuners, backend hardware, etc, I just got comcast's HDDVR. How well does myth now deal with HD on cable providers, like comcast? The only realy upside to MythTV was that it was free.but not anymore! I don't want to do "development" at night - I just want to press a button and watch TV. We're on our original unit after many many years. It does what I want it to when I hit a button. So for the few things we watch in HD, we use the Comcast HD-PVR with Tivo - reluctantly.įor everything else - all the reruns, and bulk of stuff we record - and music - It's all still the Tivo Series-2. Oh yea, and whatever you do - don't hit the "on-demand" button - 'cause that'll just ruin your whole evening. No music - at least not our - just the crappy Comcast music channels. The firmware is still kind of screwed-up - gives you the wrong sounds when clicking through things - shows disappear sometimes - a few unit freezes, etc.
It's not too bad now - but a bit clunky - not as fast and responsive. They eventually came out with a version of firmware which at least stablized the box. We went through about 3 trips to the Comcast office, dead units, 3 or 4 technician house-calls. The Comcast HD-DVR with Tivo firmware was the worst. We only went through 2 or 3 of these boxes (due to dying) during our month we owned them - when we found out Tivo firmware was available. That was too great - limited functionality and channel guides were a pain. MythTV's UI was kind of slow and klunky as well.
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That was horible beyond believe - especialy in-contrast to the Windows MCE, which was very very nice.
The worst thing about it however was the music portion of it. The features and flexibility were very nice. Windows MCE was pretty nice - but after about a month, my filesystem got corruped, and I lost everything - including the 300 CDs I had ripped (manually) to the unit! The UI was a little slow.
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And I can even download my shows to my PC. Hands down! It doesn't have all the features and flexibility as the other units, but it's fast and responsive - from a usability perspective. I had a Tivo - and have since moved to Windows Media Center,then to Tivo, then to a Comcast HD-PVR box, then to the Comacst HD-PVR box running Tivo firmware.
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