[LINK] two articles on digital and media and John Howard's govt [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Carl Makin]

On 08/06/2007, at 10:19 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> My brother in-law has a PC Digital TV card and no Television Set in
> Newcastle - not sure about the Antennae but it picked up the Newcastle

We've got 2 PCI SD digital cards in a Linux box running MythTV.  It  
uses the existing tv antenna system which has an amplifier and breaks  
out to 4 TVs and the video.  The distribution system also feeds the  
Transact TV signal (mostly nailed to Disney Channel) around the  
house.  We use both an XBox and an iMac as the frontends.  It has  
100GB of disk and it has almost completely changed our TV viewing  
habits.

We find we now, by default, record all programs we find interesting,  
even if we think we'll be home to watch them as they air.  We often  
don't watch them live even then, but finish putting the kids to bed,  
make a cup of tea, settle into the chair usually about 20 minutes  
after the program has started and then watch the recording.  If the  
kids come out to protest going to bed then we can pause until they've  
been dealt with.

We've stopped being a slave to the TV station schedule and their  
habit of scheduling interesting programs at the same time.  If the  
system broke now my wife would kill me!


Carl.