MythTV News

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!According to whathifi.com, Philips will stop making flatpanel TVs for North America because it is losing money.
The question is whether Philips will also pull out of the european marked.
You can read many more details on What HIFI?

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I started mythtvnews.com one year ago - actually April 12th. So the site is now one year old.
What has happened in that year?

182 posts
27.567 unique visitors
83.381 pageviews
About 400 subscribers of the RSS feed
The most read post was “MythTV 0.21 will be released in February 2008“.
Thanks everyone for the support and constructive comments.

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NVIDIA has released what they refer to as a beta release of their Linux driver.
The main points for MythTV users are:

Added support for the following new GPUs:

Quadro FX 3600M
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9500M GS
GeForce 8400
GeForce 8400 GS

Fixed a problem that caused the synchronization signal polarity to always be positive for DVI devices […]

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Just as I posted that the HD PVR would be delayed, it now appears that it will be shipping May 1st!
According to Brent Evans the device which will be called the “HD PVR model 1212″ should be available for preorder later today.
Meanwhile you can check out the new product page on the Hauppauge homepage.

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There is a new project available called “MythTV for iPhone”, which will allow you to browse and watch your MythTV recordings on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
You can see a demo video below and also read more about the project on the project homepage.

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I like widgets. And so do a lot of other people it seems. At least they have become mainstream the last couple of years with widget engines from Google, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, etc.
I know of two widgets for MythTV and they have both been updated recently for 0.21 compatibility.
The first one is “Upcoming MythTV Recordings” […]

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