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Who the fuck still watches TV?

Funny thing is, with MythTV and an HDHomerun attached to a broadcast antenna, I'm scooping up more TV than I can keep up with. Why pay for cable?

Of course, watching it this way does require some advance planning, periodically checking program listings for interesting things and setting recording schedules, but it's nice to be able to arrange TV to fit my schedule instead of arranging my schedule to fit TV.

Granted, I do miss out on some things (in particular, many Blackhawks games are on CSN) but that's their loss - for me, they've priced themselves out of the market.

I was doing that too, until my dual-tuner ATSC capture box from Silicon Dust died. Fine, I thought, I'll just buy another. Nope! Not available for sale anywhere, and I haven't found a comparable product from another vendor (network-attached ATSC receiver).

I may break down and try out TabloTV, but that requires you to use their own apps. Sigh

One common problem with the SiliconDust boxes (though it hasn't happened to me, knock on wood) is wall-wart failure. No doubt another example of Capacitor Plague. (rant) I can't help but wonder how many tons of perfectly good electronics get landfilled because of crap caps. (/rant)

If you still have the old box, try the new power supply with it, provided it's the same voltage and provides sufficient current.[1] Merely checking the supply with a voltmeter isn't sufficient.

[1] https://forum.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=192...

Dual ATSC tuner for $95 on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHomeRun-CONNECT-broadca...

Well, I'll be darned. That wasn't in stock anywhere the last few times I looked. That's the model I had which previously failed. I guess I'll give it another try.

Whoa, whoa, whoa: People are still using mythtv and it still works? Wasn't the dev scooped up by Google years ago?

Still in active development. [1]

That being said, the Mythbuntu distro is basically dead at this point due to developer attrition. [2]

I'd like to find something simpler that still had MythTV's editing and commercial flagging without the extra baggage. After all, it dates back to analog TV with V4L, and has a whole lot of extra cruft that Kodi renders redundant.

[1] https://www.mythtv.org/news [2] http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntusolongandthanksf...

About a 100M households. I found [0], for example.

[0] http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/currency/nielsen-pay-t...

> ... there were 99.44 million cable plus households, which includes wired cable, telco and satellite subscribers, ...

I have a cable subscription that I never use. It's not HD so it doesn't even compete with my digital antenna. Why do I have a cable subscription that I don't use? Comcast continuously provides promotional packages with cable that are cheaper than regular internet-only packages. I think practices like this artificially inflate that number, quite a bit.

On the flip side, I have a Netflix subscription I use for less than a movie a month, and about a 20 hour burst when House of Cards is back. I tried looking for better data than I quoted but there's not much :(

We've banned this account for only posting just this sort of thing.

And, a lot of the content that is watched "not on TV" is still produced by the same people that produce "TV". So, it's TV.

Do you watch Netflix? Then you watch TV.

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