New Myth hardware and Myth 0.21 finally running..

Well I finally got enough spare minutes to get off my butt and get the new MythTV hardware in place. I rebuilt my TV stand specifically so it could accommodate my largish (aging) receiver and the new (even largerish) MythTV gear. Anyway, it's quieter and much more powerful and the new changes to MythTV seem pretty nice. I have a bunch of configuration to do yet and and I have to rebuild the old machine to take over for the failed HD encoder / remote frontend machine that failed. That's another reason why I just had to get this new box into position; I'm down to a single encoder and that doesn't make for much flexibility in scheduling. Plus, all the network shows we watch are broadcast in HD and that is a much better viewing experience than down-converted 480i HD that I get from the S-Video output of my DirecTV rx feeding my PVR-250 in my master backend / frontend.

I'll post some images of the new home once I get channel changing and the old schedules sorted out - I'm having an issue where the new Mythbox has forgotten all most of the Lost episodes that we've recorded in the past. For channel changing, I'm hoping to return to using the USB->USB trick that I used in the past so that I have a direct connection between the new Mythbox and the DirecTV box.