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belcampo at zonnet

Aug 1, 2010, 1:28 AM

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Value estimation of MythTV

Value of a human 1000000
Lifetime 80 years
In minutes 42048000
Sleeping 14016000
At work 4224000
Too young 3942000
Education/School 518400
Too old 259200
Available to commercials 19088400

Value of saved commercial-time 0.05 per minute
Movie/Docu/etc vs. Commercials 25%

Watching 1000hrs a year saves 250hrs,
which adds to a value of 750.00 a year.

Regards

Belcampo
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rocket at extremelan

Aug 1, 2010, 3:53 AM

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Re: Value estimation of MythTV [In reply to]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:28 PM, belcampo <belcampo [at] zonnet> wrote:
> Value of a human 1000000
> Lifetime 80 years
> In minutes 42048000
> Sleeping 14016000
> At work 4224000
> Too young 3942000
> Education/School 518400
> Too old 259200
> Available to commercials 19088400
>
> Value of saved commercial-time 0.05 per minute
> Movie/Docu/etc vs. Commercials 25%
>
> Watching 1000hrs a year saves 250hrs,
> which adds to a value of 750.00 a year.
>
> Regards
>
> Belcampo

Excellent choice of unit.
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Douglas_Peale at comcast

Aug 1, 2010, 11:13 AM

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Re: Value estimation of MythTV [In reply to]

On 08/01/2010 03:53 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:28 PM, belcampo <belcampo [at] zonnet> wrote:
>> Value of a human 1000000
>> Lifetime 80 years
>> In minutes 42048000
>> Sleeping 14016000
>> At work 4224000
>> Too young 3942000
>> Education/School 518400
>> Too old 259200
>> Available to commercials 19088400
>>
>> Value of saved commercial-time 0.05 per minute
>> Movie/Docu/etc vs. Commercials 25%
>>
>> Watching 1000hrs a year saves 250hrs,
>> which adds to a value of 750.00 a year.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Belcampo
>
> Excellent choice of unit.

You need to reduce that "value" by the amount of time spent getting MythTV set up and the amount of time maintaining the MythTV
setup.
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belcampo at zonnet

Aug 1, 2010, 2:38 PM

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Re: Value estimation of MythTV [In reply to]

Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 08/01/2010 03:53 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:28 PM, belcampo <belcampo [at] zonnet> wrote:
>>> Value of a human 1000000
>>> Lifetime 80 years
>>> In minutes 42048000
>>> Sleeping 14016000
>>> At work 4224000
>>> Too young 3942000
>>> Education/School 518400
>>> Too old 259200
>>> Available to commercials 19088400
>>>
>>> Value of saved commercial-time 0.05 per minute
>>> Movie/Docu/etc vs. Commercials 25%
>>>
>>> Watching 1000hrs a year saves 250hrs,
>>> which adds to a value of 750.00 a year.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Belcampo
>> Excellent choice of unit.
>
> You need to reduce that "value" by the amount of time spent getting MythTV set up and the amount of time maintaining the MythTV
> setup.
Or multiplied with the amount of people in the household who also
profit. ;-)
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tylernt at gmail

Aug 2, 2010, 9:23 AM

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Re: Value estimation of MythTV [In reply to]

It gets even better when you factor in timestretch. I watch almost all
shows at 1.2 or 1.3x, and a few at 1.5 or 2.0x. I'm to the point now
that watching content at normal speed makes everyone seem like they're
moving and speaking through treacle... I think I'd have to give up TV
before I gave up timestretch.

> You need to reduce that "value" by the amount of time spent getting MythTV
> set up and the amount of time maintaining the MythTV setup.

Agreed.
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beww at beww

Aug 2, 2010, 9:33 AM

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Re: Value estimation of MythTV [In reply to]

On Monday, August 02, 2010 10:23:10 am Tyler T wrote:
> It gets even better when you factor in timestretch. I watch almost all
> shows at 1.2 or 1.3x, and a few at 1.5 or 2.0x. I'm to the point now
> that watching content at normal speed makes everyone seem like they're
> moving and speaking through treacle... I think I'd have to give up TV
> before I gave up timestretch.

Yeah, between time stretch and commercial skipping a "30 minute" program becomes more like 16 or 17 minutes.

Of course some programs "stretch" better than others, news shows and other talking heads are the best.

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kevin at familyross

Aug 2, 2010, 10:23 AM

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Re: Value estimation of MythTV [In reply to]

On 08/02/2010 09:33 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday, August 02, 2010 10:23:10 am Tyler T wrote:
>
>> It gets even better when you factor in timestretch. I watch almost all
>> shows at 1.2 or 1.3x, and a few at 1.5 or 2.0x. I'm to the point now
>> that watching content at normal speed makes everyone seem like they're
>> moving and speaking through treacle... I think I'd have to give up TV
>> before I gave up timestretch.
>>
> Yeah, between time stretch and commercial skipping a "30 minute" program becomes more like 16 or 17 minutes.
>
> Of course some programs "stretch" better than others, news shows and other talking heads are the best.
>

Unfortunately, on my system, I can't time stretch HD-PVR recordings,
only MPEG2 OTA recordings. Maybe I need a better video card, I'm only
using onboard GeForce 8300 with VDPAU.
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