[mythtvnz] Help spending my brothers $5K on MythTV

[Steve Hodge]

On 2/23/06, Craig Box <craig@dubculture.co.nz> wrote:
> > Im about to start building a MythTV system for my brother - some help w=
ith
> the planning please
>
> Not to detract from the fun value of MythTV, but have you considered buyi=
ng
> him a MySky for the TV part of it?  You could do MP3/DivX etc with someth=
ing
> else.
>
> I like MythTV for many reasons, but I wouldn't try doing Sky on it
> personally.  Others are.  When I can put my Sky card into a DVB-S card I'=
ll
> reconsider.

MySky doesn't do music, video, or pictures. But it might well be worth
getting MySky and doing the non-PVR stuff as a separate box. That's
probably what I'd do if I was starting now. On the other hand MythTV
is a better PVR than MySky (AFAIK) - things like timeshift and skip
forward are not available on MySky and apparently their "series
record" feature is pretty hit and miss.

Steve