UPI/PhysOrg: Move Over TiVo, MythTV is Here | Linux Today

UPI/PhysOrg: Move Over TiVo, MythTV is Here

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 10, 2006

“Frustrated by the slow, advertising-laden cable experience
provided by AT&T Broadband, programmer Isaac Richards took
matters into his own hands by coming up with his own solution to
the problem.

“That was in 2002, and since then his MythTV project has grown
into a full-fledged effort to build personal video recording
systems from readily available computer components and the
open-source Linux operating system…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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