<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Justin Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin.johnson3@gmail.com">justin.johnson3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Yeechang Lee <<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com">ylee@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Justin Johnson <<a href="mailto:justin.johnson3@gmail.com">justin.johnson3@gmail.com</a>> says:<br>
>> 2) Using the on-screen guide was the only way to schedule a recording.<br>
>> I couldn't just browse through an alphabetical list of all shows in<br>
>> the next two weeks. This is how I regularly schedule things in<br>
>> mythTV, in combination with mythweb.<br>
><br>
> That's flabbergasting. So if the user hears about a cool TV show, but<br>
> doesn't know when or where it's on, he has to scan through the entire<br>
> grid of dozens or hundreds of shows for two weeks' worth of listings?<br>
><br>
> Speaking of user interfaces, I've mentioned before that one thing that<br>
> immediately impressed me about MythTV was how Watch Recordings very<br>
> cleverly uses two panes to offer both strict-chronological and<br>
> sorted-by-program listings of available recordings. Certainly my TiVo,<br>
> despite millions of dollars spent (usually quite justifiably) on the<br>
> user interface, didn't offer anything like that. In the five years<br>
> since I've yet to see anything better.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>There was a way to search using an on-screen keyboard, but that's<br>
tedious for obvious reasons.<br>
<br>
As for the hearing about a new show, my favorite rule on my myth<br>
system is the custom rule to record any show that has an id of EP*001,<br>
which basically encompasses all pilot episodes, plus some random other<br>
stuff that I usually ignore. Unfortunately, it's a good way to start<br>
watching a *ton* of new shows, but is a great way to see all the new<br>
shows when the "season" starts.<br>
Naturally, there was no way to do this in MC.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's a very good point. I've been mulling MC since I got my Xbox. I would very much miss this premier rule that I have running now. Truth be told, the Xbox UPnP browser should serve me well enough for playing content recorded by Myth. I should spend some time seeing how well that works.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div>