The MythTV Convergence. the mythtv convergence. The grand unification of personal digital video recorder technology converges. In fact, we think you would do well to treat the MythTV suite of software applications as a harness for exercising greater control...

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My verdict: you get what you pay for. SnapStream PVS is reasonably priced, for a reason. SnapStream PVS falls between several chairs. It is proprietary software, and thus can not be tinkered with under hood. MythTV, for example, has a plug-in architecture with...

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for your HTPC. I currently use Windows Media Center Edition 2005 in my own HTPC, but I have used several other media center applications in the past, including: Media Portal; Snapstream BeyondTV; ATI's MMC; Imon Multi-Median and Linux-based MythTV. Over the...

used. That said, we're not enamored of the requirement to emulate a DLNA media server to complete these tests (not part of MCE 2005, and implemented with varying degrees of fidelity in other media environments such as MythTV, SageTV, and Beyond TV) but it's...

For The Ideal Media PC Having built several-dozen media PCs already in the course of writing two books and many articles on this technology (one on MythTV on the Linux side, the other on Windows Media Center 2005), we've developed a good set of criteria for...