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Got out the old Mythtv box and updated it. Made a few tweaks and all was well. Now you can get standalone digital recorders aka pvr's that are not tied to a provider, Not tested any of them yet. Mythtv has one advantage that you can use it with thin clients and or touchpads as frontends to watch/listen media. Just like the new pvrs, with MythTV you can use OTA (over the air) antenna TV very easily. No wonder that cable subscriptions have allegedly gone down dramatically. Titantv .com is a good place for TV listings. http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-up-a-computer-based-DVR-with-Mythtv-for-l/

Got out the old Mythtv box and updated it. Made a few tweaks and all was well. Now you can get standalone digital recorders aka pvr's that are not tied to a provider, Not tested any of them yet. Mythtv has one advantage that you can use it with thin clients and or touchpads as frontends to watch/listen media. Just like the new pvrs, with MythTV you can use OTA (over the air) antenna TV very easily. No wonder that cable subscriptions have allegedly gone down dramatically. Titantv .com is a good place for TV listings. http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-up-a-computer-based-DVR-with-Mythtv-for-l/

One of the big things now is to be able to record what is on tv. Most of your cable providers will rent you a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) so you can record the shows you like (with limitations). Of course your computer can me made to do that also. In fact we made our own DVR with open source software. It is know as Mythtv ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-up-a-computer-based-DVR-with-Mythtv-for-l /). I actually have built two of them. One for the one analog (now defunct) tv reception methods and one for the new digital tv reception. Love being able to record a lot of PBS educational media either for later viewing, or just be able to look at again and again. Cable viewing is getting rather expensive. so we dumped the tv portion of cable. We now use what is know as OTA-TV or Over-the-air tv. It's free!! Your selection is not as great but, since so many people are dropping cable tv, more and more cable stuff is comping to over the air tv.  In fact, cable tv providers are drop...