Re: electrical deaths

On 2024-12-03 03:18, Don Y wrote:

On 12/2/2024 2:07 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

MythTV is very powerful, but in the past I had trouble making Digital TV cards work with Linux

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The SD offerings are stand-alone boxes; typically two (optimized
now, to one) antenna/cable input and a network connection.  (I
think once you get above 4? tuners, they add network interfaces
just because HD content -- for multiple concurrent broadcasts --
can quickly consume bandwidth of a single interface)

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I will have to see if they sell here. The transmission protocols are different.

 <shrug>  No idea.  I treat THAT technology much like people treat automobiles:
"What do I have to do to MAKE IT GO?"
 MythTV, OTOH, is a big mess.  Typical of FOSS offerings where no one sat down
to DESIGN the product but, rather, opted to have scores of "settings" (and
boasting that it maximizes flexibility!) so that the user -- EACH user -- ends
up having to make decisions that the developers avoided.  <frown>
 Thankfully, the "box" we have has already baked ITS notions into its
design so, as long as we can live with those assumptions, its a great
solution!

Yes, I agree that a ready made box is better; I just have not found a good enough box. I have one somewhere, but it is much worse than my old Gigaset. It appears that good makers have abandoned this market in Europe.
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Cheers, Carlos.