Yes, MythTV works great. Been using it for about 3 years. Silicon Dust HDHomeRun is definitely the way to go... To get started, have a server with a lot of free disk space (you know video is huge), order HDHomeRun, setup MythTV. You should review the MythTV user list for the very common question of what's needed, as well as how others have setup a viewing PC/TV. For us, I ran a 25 foot VGA/audio cable from the family room PC to the big screen. We use MythWeb for our scheduling interaction, and MythTV Player for watching (it's a windoze pc). On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Matthew Junk wrote: > >> As far as ditching cable or satellite all together. I can get 32 >> subchannels with a good over air antenna. In addition, with a Roku (some >> TVs and DVD players will work too), I can watch Amazon on Demand, Netflix, >> Hulu Plus, etc. >> >> Amazon on Demand is paid per movie or show. (They also have a prime >> option.) >> Netflix is like $8 per month. >> Hulu Plus is like $8 per month. >> >> With this who needs cable or satellite? > > > > Exactly. We have Netflix, with streaming, a Roku, which works great (and > has Linux inside) and we still have DirecTV and it costs something like > $1000/year. I'm ready to dump that, but I'm pretty used to recording a lot > of programming via DirecTV DVR that I can get over the air (OTA). I would > like to record the OTA programs with my computer. > > Are many of you using MythTV? I don't know much about it. I'm thinking it > would be great to have a computer-based way of programming to record TV > shows, and I think MythTV does that. Do I need a special card for the > computer to be able to take in digital info from an antenna? How would you > recommend I get started? > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list