[mythtvnz] Hello Myth TV list

[yuri]

On 01/05/06, Nigel Bond wrote:
> I came across MythTV whilst building my house here in Greenhithe, the ide=
a
> of a wired house was pretty exiting to me.  So I created a server room at
> the centre of my house sent TV and internet from it to every room in the
> house.  Then for good measure I put in provision for surround sound in th=
e
> living room (and for some reason the Garage) and sound to each of the oth=
er
> rooms in the house.  I have a very exiting wiring video we filmed after a
> weekend of wiring the house.
[snip]
> To date I have(had) the server in place.  For ages it had two PVR-350 car=
ds
> and an IV-TV card pulling in TV shows onto Myth 0.18 (I think), and getti=
ng
> mrgeek's (and others) TV feed.  At its best I could get the TV off of UHF
> sky pipe the picture down to the living room and pipe the sound to the
> surround sound system.  All this was controlled by an infra red transmit
> receive thingy bob.  My front room has the TV and five speakers(with no
> wires showing anywhere do to the wiring we did).  The configuration was h=
ell
> but interesting but more frustrating was that my server decided it did wa=
s
> going to play up, freezing all too often for my wife.  Eventually I
> de-commissioned it took the cards out and gave the server to the kids(Jos=
h
> and Will, 9 and 7 respectively).  I have finally worked out that the prob=
lem
> was infact the power consumption causing the system to over heat.
[snip]
> I am also planning to add asterix to my system and get my
> phone bills down to a low level.

Wow! As soon as[1] I have some money I'm going to offer to fly you
down to Christchurch to help me do my place.

Yuri de Groot


[1] as soon as =3D in a few years maybe :-)