MythTV

MythTV is a revolution in watching tv. A mythbox includes the following features:

• watch, pause, rewind live television
• control mythtv via remote control from your couch
• receive the new Freeview television channels
• watch recorded television at increased speeds (or decreased speeds) - ideal forwatching the news
• free television guides for up to 8 days
• schedule multiple recordings with ease and avoid recording conflicts easily
• watch tv and record another channel (more channels can be added with more sat cards)
• receive multiple channels from one satetilite dish
• upload your digital photos into an image gallery viewed on tv
• burn your favourite programs to dvd
• upload your music to the computer to play easily though the mythbox
• upload your dvd titles into a library for ease of selection
• view the weather

Myth Boxes

We are currently selling premade mythboxes. This includes all the features listed above plus much more. You buy the hardware for a one of cost and then never pay monthly subscription fees again. Crystal Clear television is yours forever.

Contact us for current prices - you will find we are very affordable.

MythTV Setup

For those geeks out there trying to setup your own mythtv box - here is some information we have used or created for building ours.

These pages help with new zealand mythtv setup using freeview and getting frequencies:

• http://www.wlug.org.nz/FreeViewMythTvSetup

These are things not to forget to do or are a great idea we have implimented in a mythbox setup.

• http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Specifying_DPI_for_NVIDIA_Cards
• http://www.aldorf.no/mythtv/
• http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2007/06/change-boot-splash-screen-ubuntu.html
• MythTV Ubuntu Installation Guide
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Troubleshooting#head-df84859e9b132318b445ffa967e76acdfc207177
• http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#auto - this link shows how to start other little cool things on startup of mythtv to disable screensaver etc,
  • auto start for openbox is at ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh as shown by http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Autostart
  • ubuntu starts openbox from script so autostart doesn't work so I put in this line:
    /home/mythtv/.config/openbox/autostart.sh &
    right at the end of the file called /usr/share/mythtv/startmythtv.sh and it works!!!