[Cumbria] Promoting the LUG

[Ken Hough]

Schwuk wrote:

>PVR stands for Personal Video Recorder (I think). Tivo is a brand name. Sky
>offer Sky+ which provides similar functionality. Basically, the PVR sits
>between the television and the signal (be it Sky, cable, Freeview etc.). the
>incoming signal is encoded and saved, then decoded and passed onwards. This
>allows you to pause and rewind live tv. You can also record programs for
>later viewing etc. Have a look here: http://www.mythtv.org
>
>Could make a nice project for the LUG...
>

Sounds good for a dedicated TV freak, but good old VCR does for me.

>
>I use linux exclusively at home, but have to use MS at work. Linux is
>currently satisfying all my computing needs at home, even games. My only
>hardware that doesn't work is my firewire scanner, but that's simply a case
>of my being to lazy to figure out what it needs... Oh, and I've got a USB
>radio tuner, but AFAIK it's not currently supported by linux so I've not
>even tried... Office, mail, internet, entertainment and music all covered by
>my linux desktop.
>

So we have at least two genuine Linux users in the LUG!


Regards

Ken Hough