<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Param Singh <<a href="mailto:mithu.singh@gmail.com">mithu.singh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> If everything about mythtv and its usability is good, then why<br>> competitors are using "mythtv is a lot of work" as marketing tool ?<br>><br>> Screenshot :: <a href="http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5687/mythtvju4.png" target="_blank">http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5687/mythtvju4.png</a><br>
><br></div>I laugh every time I see that being that their product requires<br>windows. Which to me is much more work and headaches than MythTV could<br>possibly cause considering that using windows safely will requires<br>
usually a virus checker and anti-spyware software. And if you use<br>these tools from Symantec there goes 200 or so MB of ram.</blockquote>
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<div>Let's be fair here. Installing a PVR on Windows is probably significantly easier than doing the same on Linux given a random set of hardware. The driver support is better, the installation is usually a click-click wizard. Linux can often be difficult for people to get running or easy to get running (LiveCD) but hard to maintain comparatively. And I wouldn't say that running virus/spyware software on a non-desktop Media Center type "appliance PC" would be a requirement necessary for most people.</div>
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<div>Of course, ease of installation and usability can also be two very different things. I don't think MythTV is terribly hard in either category but then I've installed it a half a dozen times and can do the whole thing in a matter of hours now from start to finish.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div></div>