someone asked about my mythtv control preferences. Basically, mythtv has alot more features than lmce uses in the standard cube channel guide. Example, it may be reverse from this (it's been almost a year since I've used lmce) but I like to record seinfeld. If I recall, the cube channel navigation only told lmce to record the shows on 1 channel. Since seinfeld is on multiple channels, I had to go through each channel and find an episode of seinfeld. Also, I didn't find anywhere in lmce to search for a particular show. In mythtv, I just click a few menus and type in the name. In lmce, I had to scroll through the channel's entire listing until i found an episode of seinfeld. Stuff like that. In mythtv, you can set episode limits, so you ever have 10 episodes of seinfeld and whenever a new one airs, the oldest one gets deleted. Most of mythtv's power was bypassed for the three button system.
My soultion was just to grab a keyboard and exit live tv without exiting mythtv. There are tons of recording options within mythtv that I found useful, like "record in this timeslot each week", "record on any channel at any time", and the ability to exclude reruns and only record new airings.
Also, the "more options" button in the cube channel guide never seemed to work for me. But I would like to try 8.10. Now if only there were a working download/torrent...
