I dearly love my MythTV system. I travel a lot, and it enables me to take TV with me to 35,000 feet. What I love best is that it's growing with me. I recently added an Air2PC HD5000 card, so I now have a three-tuner box. (I hope to write an article on the new tuner in the near future.)...

In my initial MythTV article about hardware, I wrote that I had selected the Silverstone LC-03V because of the vacuum-fluorescent display (VFD). Although Silverstone boasted about the ready availability of Windows drivers, I had to do some digging. I discovered that the VFD used the NEC D16314AGJ-011 controller chip, which was described as being compatible with the well-known HD44780...

A few weeks ago, I upgraded to MythTV 0.19. For the most part, the upgrade is worthwhile, though I've had a few problems. On the plus side: My favorite addition is the signal strength meter. Adjusting the antenna with previous versions involved setting the antenna in a trial position, watching for half an hour, and counting the number of picture...