My Beyond TV, Beyond Media, and the Firefly Remote arrived yesterday. I was using the trial for a while, but the Remote control really has changed the experience for the better. It all just works and is much closer to a Tivo experience. Plus the remote is RF not IR, so it works without line-of-site. So I can in theory put the box in the other room. Unfortunately, it won’t control the IR based TV and stereo receiver.
So far, I’m not very impressed by the Harmony remote. The setup is this horrible mix of web based configuration with a locally running application that actually sends the config to the remote. The remote itself has plastic buttons instead of the nice rubber buttons like the Tivo and Firefly remote. Not sure which one I’ll end up using.
Beyond Media is surprising cool. I’m not sure how much I’ll use it in practice, but it provides easy access to DVD player, Weather, Live365 streams, Photos, Music, and whole bunch of other things. I thought the fact that it is a separate application from Beyond TV was really annoying. But the remote allows to go back and forth without really noticing it.
After a couple more tweaks, we should be able to do away with the Tivo.
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Thanks for posting your hardware config. I’ve just started my own PVR / HTPC building adventure and appreciate you documenting your experience. This will really help me out. I was leaning towards BeyondTV, then towards MythTV, then back after reading your remarks. Are you still a fan of BeyondTV? Did you ever figure out how to connect the monitor / tv without having to reboot the system? Did you go back and try to get MythTV working again?
Comment by Dave 11.22.05 @ 10:41 pm