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I would look at a Myth TV box for this. I wonder if someone will build a good business around creating and selling Myth Boxes.

• bigsassy 16y ago
  Somebody did. And it appears they are now going out of business: http://mythic.tv/ http://mythic.tv/
• mistermann 16y ago
  MythTV is awesome...my MythTV box from ~8 years ago was light years ahead in terms of features and UI than my cable companies (Shaw cable in Canada) PVR today. Does anyone know why the software is so bad on cable boxes? I mean, it is just so incredibly bad, in so many ways, it seems like it has to be deliberate.
  • ttol 16y ago
    consumers are not used to paying for set top boxes. steve jobs stated as much in a recent interview when they were evaluating going after the tv market or the phone market. they chose mobile over tv for that reason. there are many failed attempts at cracking the living room -- the cable companies make most of the money and they have little incentive to truly innovate the boxes that they are "renting" out to their customers. to get truly elegant UI's that are powerful enough to do anything useful with all the TV signals (HD, etc) requires significant hardware. when Tivo was ported over to comcast boxes, most of the features that make it tivo were slashed since the boxes comcast gives to customers were significantly cheaper and underpowered. most cable companies have a monopoly in the physical area they are servicing. where's the incentive to increase cost by upgrading equipment for your customers when the minimal viable product is happily received by the smith household?
    • mistermann 16y ago
      True, but the software is so bad, it almost would have to be out of spite, they could do so much better for the same cost.