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PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
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<pre wrap="">"Mark Knecht" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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<pre wrap="">On 6/30/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON <a
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<pre wrap="">I am planning on a DVD player and an HDTV antenna. I know a
lot of people recommend cable or satellite.
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<pre wrap="">Don't get a DVD player. Get a DVD drive for your Myth box.
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<pre wrap="">Maybe, but only for the kid's rooms....the picture from my DVD
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<pre wrap="">with any of the Linux players I've tried is nowhere near as good as
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<pre wrap="">Denon DVD player. If you care about movies get a really top notch
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Just my 2 cents,
Mark
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I just got tired of having to replace the media. I have no more DVDs
to deal with, except the ones I rent. And those that are scratched
enough that if I really cared, I'd buy it, hook up my trusty Denon
DVD-5910 (which has a nice layer of dust on it), and watch it.
Oh, then I'd rip it and put it in myth as either an ISO or an mpg
and dare anyone to tell the difference. The convenience of
not having to search around for it, while also being able to
watch it on any TV where I have a myth frontend FAR outweighs
the picture quality I think might have an advantage by playing
right through the DVD player itself.
Paul
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Thank you all for your responses. This has been extremely helpful and
the fog is starting to clear. <br>
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Paul thanks for your suggestion of dumping my 300 cd carousel. I like
the carousel but I like the idea better and it should only take about
150 gig hd to do it. Does mythtv or some addon piece of software
automatically download all the track title and artist info and allow
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to search your CDs on HD to find and play music?<br>
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Also Paul, you stated at one time that "you dare anybody to tell the
difference between a dedicated DVD and MythTV playing it". Is this
from the DVD drive or after you copied it ot HD. Later you mention
that HD is worth the image loss. Please clarify. Somebody mentioned
that Linux DVD players are not up to par. If you found one that is
please inform us. We rent a lot of DVD and I can't see copying them
all to HD before playing them. <br>
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Thanks again for all the help,<br>
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Chris Lopeman<br>
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