Mac Mini/XBMC - was krankshaft format solution found

[Steve Pond]

Reply on list as I want to know too!  :o)


----- Original message -----
> On Apr 7, 2011, at 2:59 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
> 
> > I'll try XMBC, but:
> > 
> > "....now that we’ve been showered with gifts from our new friends at
> > Sony, we understand that it is not sustainable in the long-term; *DRM
> > is the way of the future*.” Uh oh!
> 
> 
> Go back and re-read the date of that entry. :-)
> 
> As a question to John Rennie: how does XBMC fare as a PVR?   I currently
> have a DirecTV subscription and a DVR was bundled with the service. 
> It'd be nice, say, to have a DVR system that was a bit smarter about
> recording a series and skipping episodes I'd already seen.   (The DirecTV
> DVR appears limited in this regard.)   Is it better or worse than others
> such as MythTV or VDR, say?   (Best to reply off-list, I guess, since
> this is off-topic.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
>