Posted on 07/06/2006 6:08:14 AM PDT by abb
Do you know if Myth TV works with DirecTV? I checked the website and it seemed that it was intended to work with cable.
Because without the commercials the cost of the service would go up considerably. Hey, I hate commercials too, but they pay for network TV.
FNC showed the emmy winners this morning. I have not heard of most of the shows and watched none.
ABC is missing the point. Commercials are embeded in a PRODUCT. People are not watching their PRODUCT.
nah--the software's free.
MythTV uses TV tuner cards that fit into the PCI slots of PC motherboards. These cards work with cable TV or antennas. DirectTV uses its own tuner, so it won't work with these cards.
If the advertisers would make entertaining commercials people would watch. I've even seen a few commercials that were so good I've searched them out on the internet and down loaded them. If you haven't seen the Jack Links "Messin with Sasquatch" commercials you are missing out on some great enterntainment, IMO.
shucks...
Thanks.
I have friends that connect up their notebook computer to their TV just like you would hook up a Playstation. They just play them on their notebook computer and they "play" on their TV.
You can Google up XBMC - Xbox Media Center and see how I do it. Play files stored on a PC on your home network using an Xbox. Or you can just put the files on a data DVD and play them that way using XBMC.
As for where you find these there's the good old fashioned newsgroups method where shows appear only a short time after they air (sometimes an hour). Then there's all those P2P networks (Emule and Bittorrent being the best).
I'm not really advocating doing it this way. Just saying this is an option that lots of people use.
The do that with some long movies.
It way too annoying and screws up the continuity of story.
The bottom line is commericial based television's days are numbered.
Perhaps pay TV will finally be the commercial free nirvana that was the original promise.
Heeeeerree comes nanny state! Hold on ladies and gentlemen, we are about to give up more of our freedoms.
If you recall, Disney (which now owns ABC) fought VCR's all the way to the US Supreme Court. They lost...
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/betamaxcase/betamaxcase.htm
Not if you output to the tv card from the DirectTV tuner.
Not as convenient, but still possible.
Read Stephen Kings "The Running Man." (The short story he wrote as Richard Bachman -- no the Schwarzenegger movie.) He predicted the "FreeVee Mandatory Consumption/Benefit Law" that required people to have a TV running, 24 hours a day. That way, the populace stayed inside, pacified and narcotized.
The commercials are also darned LOUD. It's as if someone pumped the volume up by ten notches or so whenever they come on...
Then you can only record the one channel that the tuner is tuned to.
The purpose of MythTV is to have multiple tuners and program it to automatically record different shows at different times on different channels.
Yes, it will work, but you miss 99% of the functionality.
The greatest invention ever. It's an idiot proof VCR like device that is in your cable box. You can record single shows or automatically record entire seasons. I record the 5th season of 24 and it's just sitting there waiting for me whenever I get a chance to watch it. You never have to sit through commercials again-simply fast forward. For example a 3 hour football game can be watched in 45 minutes if you fast forward through the commercials, half time, replays, etc...
Heck, they have all gotten together and run their commercials at the same time.
Surfing during a break gets you more commercials.
And they have stretched the commercial break to 5 min. from 3 min.
An hour show now has 20 min. of commercials.
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