Full 1080p HD MythTV on a small, silent, cheap and power efficient PC sounds like a "dream come true".
It has the prospect of changing your TV habits in a power efficient way, allowing you to keep up with all your favorite series without ever looking at the daily TV schedules, and not having to worry much about ever-evolving TV standards. But will it turn out to be a busted myth?
Hear what it takes, learn strategies for maintenance, and how to plan ahead, design and implement your setup in a way that allows you to watch TV content // -- with a high WAF factor --// instead of hacking kernel drivers, tweaking LIRC remote control control files or paying increasing hardware bills.
And if you'd really rather hack code, maybe you can pick up ideas in need of your contribution, to help see a wider roll-out of MythTV?
Per Bækgaard created his first Unix shell scripts in 1984, wrote his first File Systems and Kernel Memory Management and Real-Time Scheduler implementations a few years later, and created his first interpreted language with associated compiler and object code interpreter in the early 1990's -- none of which is likely used any longer ;-)
He has since been making a living in the IT and Telecoms industry in various software projects, working for several employers or as a consultant. He is, however, now employed by Nokia in a more commercial role, and gets most of his daily dose of hacking outside the office hours.
Per holds a M.Sc. in EE (key focus in Computing Science) from DTU. He loves playing jazz music in a band setting, or being creative with his cameras. He is married and a father of two teenagers, who both use Myth installations on a daily basis. At home, more than 2/3 of the 15+ devices on the network are linux based.