[olug] Myth TV / Cox Digital Box questions etc

[Benjamin Watson]

To mitigate the storage issue, my buddy and I had thought of the
following concept.

Now, this concept probably isn't new, as I heard TiVo was thinking about it.

Anyhow, say a group of friends (or members of a list) use Myth at
home.  They individually amass a small collection of media (e.g.
ripped DVDs, recorded programs, music, photos, etc.).  Let's say you
missed a program you really wanted to see but weren't home to view it
and forgot to setup a schedule to record it.  Wouldn't it be nice to
be able to search other Myth setups in your area to view what you
missed?  Even if you couldn't search, just knowing that "Bob Smith"
records every Family Guy episode (perhaps via a wiki with contact info
and connection instructions) would be good enough.

I know this whole communal concept has legal/political/ToS
ramifications (e.g. RIAA, MPAA, COX), but it would be awesome.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Monday 30 June 2008, Shawn Mattingly wrote:
>> I just got a letter a week or two ago from Cox saying that they were
>> upgrading their network and that I should expect 100 HD channels from them
>> at some point in the near future (probably a substantial chunk of them
>> premium).
>
> Me too, but it only said my price was going up, not that the upgrade would
> actually have any benefits for me... DOCSIS 3.0 with native IPv6 support
> would be nice. ;)
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