Posted by gadjo on 02/16/07 16:41

"Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
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> Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>> Except MythTV doesn't charge any monthly service and you can burn
>> directly to DVD, network easily with the rest of the house, and can be
>> built from old parts.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> One thing I wasn't sure from the OP's post was if he was going to use this
> PC as a dedicated PVR - in which case I would reccomend MythTV, and seeing
> what it reccomends for a TV card. Or, if he's thinking he can continue to
> use his PC while it's recording TV - something I'm not so sure is
> reccomended.
>
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I guess this wouldnt be as big an issue if I had a more powerful CPU...but
you're right it's probably futile in my case. To answer your question, most
of the time I would be using the PVR to record shows while watching
something else on TV. As I mentioned in another post:

"...I don't have conventional cable with 125 channels, I can only tune into
one channel at a time, meaning I have to watch what I record. That in
itself is not a big deal, the decoders are cheap so I can just get a second
one from my cable provider, and hook it up to my PC. "

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