[Speakers] Re: [KLUG Members] Power supply requirements?

[Bruce Smith]

> > Side note:  Everything is now working.  My remote-control works, and I
> > have a serial cable running from the PC to the Charter Cable box which
> > allows mythtv to change channels on the converter (premium channels).
> 
> Does it allow pausing of live TV?

Yup.

> Can you record while watching a recorded show?

Depends on your configuration.

If you have two tuner cards, then yes.  With my current single tuner
card setup, no.  (I plan on adding at least one more tuner card)

You can add as many tuner cards as you can fit and you have CPU power to
run.  Stick in four tuner cards, and records three shows at once while
watching/pausing live TV at the same time, or record 4 at once.  :-)

Stick in a cheap DVD drive, install ogle or mplayer, and get rid of the
DVD player too!  :-)

And best of all (haven't tried it myself yet), is I'm going to build a
second PVR with the frontend only software for my other TV.  It doesn't
require as much hardware, everything is stored/recorded on the main
backend PVR, and I can watch the recordings on either TV!   :-)

> Other things I like about my Tivo: 
>  slow motion replay

There are keys to increase or decrease the play speed, but
I haven't played with them much.

>  8 second rewind
>  30 second skip

MythTV defaults to 10 sec rewind & 30 second skip,
but it can be changed to whatever values you like.
It also has other keys to jump ahead or back 10 minutes
(customizable).

It also has a button to completely skip a commercial!  :-)

> Your not going to make me wait for the presentation are you? ;-)

Stop on over any time!  (don't pay attention to the ugly case :)

 - BS