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Title: GeekTonic Blog
Post by: nwboater on November 11, 2011, 10:32:42 am

The GeekTonic HTPC Blog is done by Brent Evans who was a long time BeyondTV user and for the past several years a SageTV user. He used to be quite active on their forums, but I think has lost some interest with Sage being sold. I believe his blog has a large following in the HTPC community.

He made a post this morning that I responded to: http://www.geektonic.com/2011/11/boxee-adding-livetva-dvr-short-of.html  As you will see in ‘Comments’ he has asked me to do a write-up on MC. For a variety of reasons I would like to decline, but wonder if someone else here might like to do it instead.

Thanks,
Rod

Title: Re: GeekTonic Blog
Post by: glynor on November 11, 2011, 03:27:54 pm

That's pretty cool.

I read GeekTonic regularly.  Fantastic stuff there.

Title: Re: GeekTonic Blog
Post by: nwboater on November 11, 2011, 10:59:49 pm

Quote from: glynor on November 11, 2011, 03:27:54 pm

That's pretty cool.

I read GeekTonic regularly.  Fantastic stuff there.

Does that mean you'd like to do the MC writeup for him?

Thanks,
Rod

Title: Re: GeekTonic Blog
Post by: pcstockton on November 12, 2011, 01:20:58 am

i write. I will do it if you wish, albeit I am "audio-only".

Title: Re: GeekTonic Blog
Post by: nwboater on November 12, 2011, 08:01:07 am

Quote from: pcstockton on November 12, 2011, 01:20:58 am

i write. I will do it if you wish, albeit I am "audio-only".

pcstockton,

Thanks very much for your kind offer. GeekTonic Blog has a lot of focus on TV/Video. Here is Brent's Blog comment about Boxee that I responded to yesterday:  

"Sorry but true DVR functionality is a necessity for my HTPC.  And factor in that you can only use this for over-the-air and unencrypted cable TV.  I want fully-functional DVR and the ability to tune those encrypted cable channels.  Otherwise it’s not enough for 99.9% of my TV use.  Yes this is welcome news because it’s better than no DVR support, but not enough in my opinion.  I’m still hoping for something good coming from GoogleTV and AppleTV.  Otherwise HTPC as we know it will die as Microsoft lets their MediaCenter product whither on the vine".

I bolded the last sentence.

So I think it should probably be someone that uses the "DVR functionality" of MC to be able to fully explain how things work in MC.

Thanks again.

Rod

Title: Re: GeekTonic Blog
Post by: JimH on November 12, 2011, 08:12:15 am

I volunteer glynor.

Title: Re: GeekTonic Blog
Post by: BartMan01 on November 12, 2011, 01:17:19 pm

Quote from: nwboater on November 12, 2011, 08:01:07 am

pcstockton,

Thanks very much for your kind offer. GeekTonic Blog has a lot of focus on TV/Video. Here is Brent's Blog comment about Boxee that I responded to yesterday:  

"Sorry but true DVR functionality is a necessity for my HTPC.  And factor in that you can only use this for over-the-air and unencrypted cable TV.  I want fully-functional DVR and the ability to tune those encrypted cable channels.  Otherwise it’s not enough for 99.9% of my TV use.  Yes this is welcome news because it’s better than no DVR support, but not enough in my opinion.  I’m still hoping for something good coming from GoogleTV and AppleTV.  Otherwise HTPC as we know it will die as Microsoft lets their MediaCenter product whither on the vine".

I bolded the last sentence.

So I think it should probably be someone that uses the "DVR functionality" of MC to be able to fully explain how things work in MC.

Thanks again.

Rod

MC has the same issue with DVR - doesn't work for cable card solutions.  I have seen rumblings from both JRiver and Ceton that both would like to see this functionality get added, but right now Windows Media Center is the only game in town if you need Cable Card support.