On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 18:35 -0500, Maverick wrote:
> I've had a working MythTV box for a couple months now, and so far it's
> been tuning my basic cable channels that my local cable company has.
> I've been thinking about switching to DSS for TV cause their lineups
> have more to offer than my local cable.
>
> My main questions are,
>
> Dish or DirectTV? My brother (a home theater installer) says go with
> Dish, it's better...true?
Dish
- requires an IR blaster of similar to change channels
- lower monthly cost, at least when I had mine installed.
- If you have more than one receiver I think you tend to end up
running two cables from the receiver. Maybe 3 with local channels.
- Uses actual mpeg2 technology
Directv
- Direct serial connection possible to change channels on at least some
boxes. I have no idea how this works I have dish.
- I think they are still more monthly
- They have more sports channels I think
- Usually one fewer cable from the dish than dish, but only if
you have multiple receivers.
- I don't think they are quite using standard mpeg2 for their
signals.
I've no idea about firewire. Personally from what little I've heard if
you didn't want to save a little money on programming then directv is
probably what you want for myth. I have dish and don't regret that. If
nothing else the dish network CEO is a democrat and the directv one is
a republican which may be a silly way of choosing, but well given that
it is also cheaper.. *shrug*
>
> Are there any specific hardware boxes I should look for? I'm assuming
> I'll just tune the DSS box w/ MythTV and use lircd to change channels,
> but are there any boxes with Firewire worth seeking out instead?
>
> -Kenneth
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