[Bulk] Re: TV over the internet

[William Case]

Hi Bill;

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 15:02 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">William Case wrote:
> > Hi Tim;

> >>
> > I have a TV tuner card with my computer connected to my cable.  It's
> > great.  I prefer it to having my computer connected to my TV.
> > 
> What application do you use for watching? I've been looking for something user 
> friendly to give some people still on FC4 because they can understand xawtv and 
> all the easy to use applications stopped working. They rejected MythTV at the 
> point where it said "have your DBA set up a database..." and I have not found 
> anything which can handle clear-QAM, over the air digital, and NTSC without 
> asking for user entered channel frequencies in MHz or other things these people 
> aren't about to do.
> 
> Note: even if I was willing to set it up for them for free, they would expect 
> support at the same price, advice I give them, time consuming work not so much.
> 
I use TVTime.  It does one thing only, but it does it well.  It gives me
my cable TV.

It is easy to install and configure and just keeps on ticking.

(Actually it does more than one thing, but there is no doubt that it's
main purpose is to run a TV tuner card for TV viewing.)

-- 
Regards Bill
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