I’ve had my Tivo for about a year and a half and it’s one of the more innovative pieces of equipment that I’ve ever owned. Unfortunately, when I switched from DirecTV to cable service, my Tivo never recovered from the channel switch.
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I’ve owned my Via Mini-ITX machine for about six months now. My intentions were to buy one and build the ultimate PVR machine from it. However, my quest has been deferred for many moons because I’ve struggle to find an adequate operating systems / distrobution to host it. MythTV has every feature that I would like to have, but it’s been quite a struggle to get it installed correctly. Alas, I’ll spend another day working on it and hopefully, I’ll watch TV on a PVR by nightfall.
My latest attempt has been try out a distrobution called KnoppMyth. Within 10 minutes of booting the CD and performing a default install, I had a working Linux machine which downloaded my local cable channels. So far so good. I did this from work so I’ll have to test it from home to see how the DVD and my cable connection works.