[Discuss] Totally off topic - TVs

[Chris Hennessy]

An addition or two to the MythTV argument.  With mythtv you only record the
gilded turds that you want and have it remove the commercials for you.  On
the DVD side, the mythtv dvd player can skip all the MPAA/FBI junk at the
beginning of the DVD and go right to the menu.

Chris

On 6/28/07, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2007-06-28 14:43-0700 Deryk Barker wrote:
>
> > As this list is a hotbed of technophiles, I thought I'd see what advice
> I can
> > glean...
> >
> > My wife and I are in the market for a new tv - probably 26-32". We don't
> want
> > another CRT - our 20" is quite big enough.
> >
> > Clearly the only plasma and/or lcd sets this size are a) widescreen and
> b)
> > mostly HDTV.
> >[...]
> >   2. We have no intention of going either digital or HD for some time
> (you
> > can guild a turd but it's still a turd)
>
> :-)
>
> > which means that for
> > the foreseeable future we'll be either watching cable or DVDs. Anyone
> any
> > insight                   into which is a good tv for 'letterboxing' 4:3
> > content - we do NOT want it stretched and frankly can't
> > understand  how anyone can watch that.
>
> I think this is an interesting off-topic question, but just to bring it
> back
> on-topic, have you considered buying a large monitor and running it with a
> TV card installed in a dedicated MythTV Linux box?  Of course, a Linux
> box gives you good viewing of DVD's as well.  I haven't bothered with
> MythTV (because I frankly don't watch that much TV and more
> than agree with your above characterization of it), but we threw away our
> TV
> years ago and are happy with the alternative of a TV card installed in one
> of our Linux PC's for TV watching, and a DVD reader installed on the same
> Linux box for DVD viewing.
>
> I mention the dedicated Linux box possibility because it does give you the
> freedom to do anything you like with the TV signal and DVD data rather
> than
> being stuck with whatever frozen hardware solution the manufacturer
> decides
> you must have for your TV/DVD player.
>
> Alan
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