[ale] MythTV/similar hardware recommendations

[Scott Plante]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but you're talking about recording the s-video or composite output from your existing satellite receiver--so are you planning on manually setting the channel you want to record, say before you leave the house, and then your "DVR" would just come on and record the show during the time you set? Technically that would still be a digital video recorder, but when people talk about DVRs, usually a key feature is that it knows when the shows you want to record come on, and at that time they record the appropriate channel, and save it in a list by show name. One of the main features the Homerun would add is the ability to programmatically set the channel to record, but maybe you don't care about that. I'd say you're missing maybe the primary benefit of a DVR though. Still if you only want to record a couple of shows a week I guess you could get by that way. The first gen Tivo had a little "IR Blaster" that was at the end of a thin cable that you could put in front of your cable/satellite box, so it could change the channel on the box at the appropriate time. I'd say it worked about 95% of the time :-/ 

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