Have you ever wanted to watch TV without commercials? Ever wanted to watch a show but couldn't make it home to see it in time? Or set your VCR to record a show only to find out too late that the station changed the schedule?

You will pleased to learn that frustrations like these have become a thing of the past with the recent introduction of a Linux-based product called MythTV! MythTV is a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) that turns your computer into a sophisticated TV manager and entertainment center.

MythTV will completely revolutionize the way you view and manage your entertainment lifestyle!

MythTV is the modern way to manage your entertainment. Imagine:

• Being unexpectedly held up at work and accessing your home MythTV system over the web to schedule a recording. Never miss a show again!
• Your recording system being able to detect when a schedule change occurs and automatically reshuffling your recording schedule to match it.
• Your recorder automatically detecting and skipping commercials during playback with nary a muscle moved by you.
• Doing away with separate CD players and DVD players and even - if you want to - amplifiers. Use just one box to control your entire entertainment system instead.

The MythTV project was started by one Isaac Richards who had tried similar commercial products in the past and found them all lacking in some way. He decided to create a new system from scratch that was designed from the ground up to be user friendly, not advertiser or corporation friendly. Over time, many programmers from all over the world joined in and produced this widely acclaimed and successful software package. Like almost all Linux-based software, this package is freely available to everyone!

Compare these features:

• Easy to use interface using only a remote control
• Automatic commercial detection and skipping
• Records from multiple sources (cable, satellite, antenna)
• Records multiple shows simultaneously
• Multiple playback systems sharing access to all recordings
• Automatically downloads program schedules from the internet
• Automatically updates schedule times when they change
• Saves programs to DVD for later use complete with DVD menu navigation
• Easy to use web interface for internet access
• View your digital photos on your TV
• Listen to your music collection with random/shuffle access
• Web interface to news feeds and weather
• Computer games
• No monthly fees

In addition, if you connect your MythTV computer to a modern LCD TV, you can have access to a complete Linux desktop with all the myriad of applications that go with it. Surf the web using your favorite browser from the comfort of your living room couch using your wireless keyboard and mouse. Pause a recording to answer an email. Easily keep an eye on the kids while they research their homework on the internet. All this at a very reasonable price!

Due to the flexibility of MythTV and the many different configurations available, you should contact Cool Dragons Computing to set you up with a new MythTV system tailored to your specific needs. Although MythTV is very easy to use, it is quite complex to initially set up. It relies on the proper customization of many independent software packages to get the most out of the system. Luckily Cool Dragons Computing can take care of all these difficulties for you so that you can simply turn on your TV and start enjoying!

For further information, take a look at some screenshots of MythTV, or read further documentation from the official MythTV web site.

NOTE: Cool Dragons Computing are NOT the authors or developers of the MythTV application. We only support our own installations of this product to our customers.