Re:If you can spare the time to get MythTV to work (Score 1)

Shame that you had so much trouble. I wonder what version you used. I installed R5A10 (alpha) and was blown away at how easy it was. I have a few things in my system that helped, a pvr-250 which is vary common, and a plasma tv with vga input so no messing with tv-out. I had the whole thing installed and running 2 hours tops. and it works like a dream. Knoppymth seems to be improving on a relatively regular basis. plus they've just started touting a 'supported' hardware config that you can either buy built from them or build your own so you know you'll have minimum hasstle. all in all I have to say that I've found MythTV particularly through Knoppmyth to be amazing, and well worth keeping an eye on, even if your first experience was bad. I also happen to like that whole 'free' as in freedom AND Beer thing.