Bill East on 25 Jun 2011 11:55:26 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Media Frontend Hardware

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

I'm open to alternative suggestions as well.  (I took a quick look at
XBMC - not sure I'd use it as a substitute for a frontend, but I might
be talked into that.)

My impression of XBMC is that it is not really a substitute for MythTV although it could be a good adjunct to it. The two projects do very different things, with XBMC being a front end to your stored media and MythTV acting more as a DVR. But I could be wrong.

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