[blu] why you should try MythTv

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

you don't even need one of these if you have a Hauppauge PVR-[23]50!
The PVR comes with a remote and IR receiver which works with LIRC.
Granted it doesn't have QUITE enough buttons, but it mostly suffices
for the majority of functions.

-derek

miah <jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com> writes:

> Why waste time by not doing something because you lack the skills to
> build it when you can buy it for less than $5 on ebay..
>
> There is even a guy that usually shows up at the MIT Flea that sells
> the packardbell serial IR receivers and a remote, with a cd that includes
> LIRC and all the winamp stuff.  I think he was selling them for like
> $10
>
> -miah
>
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:02:25AM -0400, Ben Jackson wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, David Backeberg wrote:
>> 
>> > I have no idea how to mod a TiVo, as I went straight to using MythTv.
>> > Among things I haven't had to mod to get:
>> > -qwerty keyboard
>> 
>> You like this? It presonally drives me batty. I long for a remote. I have
>> one, I just lack the electronic skills to make an IR reciever (The WinTV
>> card I have is very picky about aht it accepts for signals).
>> 
>> But the rest of your comments are right on the money. I'd rather have a
>> PVR-250 though, doing the encoding in software is bothersome sometimes.
>> 
>> 				~Ben
>> 
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