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Originally Posted by Flint
@Clod: How flexible is that software at searching for things that are/aren't scheduled to run, and queueing them to record if/when that occurs?
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It generally is only aware of the next two-three weeks' worth of TV schedules, so if you're trying to add a new show to the schedule you have to remember to do it just before it starts, so that Myth knows it exists. But once it's added, the title will just sit in your record list, and the next season will get recorded without having to re-add it. Adjusting the recording options of shows is easy--just this one showing, all episodes of this show, just the showing that comes on at X time on this channel, etc... but it can sometimes be a bit of a pain to search for new titles to add, because you usually have to do it alphabetically.
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Originally Posted by lookout123
sounds cool, but why not just use a dvr? computers are more expensive than the dvr so cost isn't the issue is it?
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The initial cost of the computer is a little more, but then there's no monthly fee for the "service." (Well, effectively none, I think it's like $10 a year to download the TV schedules.) Plus, when you control the hardware and software, you can do handy things like add extra hard drive space, or burn recordings off to a DVD, which you can't do with a proprietary DVR.