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Re: TV or Not TV?

Chris Johnson — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:00:37 -0000

MythTV is cool, but the setup will kill anyone who isnt a linux guru. I hear Ubuntu help make setup possible for the avg joe, and you can even get preconfigured systems from https://monolithmc.com/~monolith/ but they are expensive.

All someone (cough.. cough) has to do is create an itv or frontrow-esque theme for MythTV and then the AppleTV is completely irrelevant. You can build a MythTV box for ~400bucks Less if you look around... and you will have..

Tivo/DVR, Music, Movies, Photos, Internet, NES/Sega/SNES emulators, DVD Player, 5.1 or 7,1 receiver, and MythTV supports 5.1 and HDTV (AppleTV doesn't).

Also there are a ton of modules I dont know much about but they look cool like an IPPhone, but here they are:

MythTV's add-on modules (plugins) include:
MythVideo: plays various video file formats.
MythMusic: A music player, jukebox, collection manager, and CD ripper.
MythDVD: DVD manager and ripper.
MythGallery: Online photo gallery manager.
MythNews: RSS feed news reader.
MythWeather: fetches weather forecasts from the net.
MythBrowser: small web browser.
MythGame: Frontend for game console emulators.
MythWeb: Controls MythTV from a remote web browser
MythPhone: Internet telephony from your TV via SIP.
MythFlix: Netflix queue viewer.
MythArchive: DVD burner
MythStreamTV: Allows for placeshifting, similar to a Slingbox.
UPnP AV MediaServer v1.0 compliant server: Share media files with UPnP-clients

Re: Google Desktop for Mac

Chris Johnson — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:27:48 -0000

I really dont see any appeal for "Google Desktop", but I do like Google Notifier for my gmail and google calendar. Those I see as being helpful.

Re: What am I going to listen to?

Chris Johnson — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:26:11 -0000

Matt;

Good post. I'm in a similar situation. I have almost 50,000 mp3's, and Random or Party shuffle are very rarely used anymore. Most of my lisening is with a conventional search by song/artist, listing to new podcasts, or I typically use smart playlists myself.

Mood tagging sounds cool, but man - it is going to take me months to tag everything.

Good article!

Re: What am I going to listen to?

Chris Johnson — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:10:12 -0000

I was wrong. Its around 80,000 songs :)

http://me.dnszones.org:8888/

Re: iPhone Unlocked!

Chris Johnson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:53:34 -0000

Just opens it up to tmobile or AT&T.

Still no love for Verizon.