Should we Evangelize for GBPVR?

[bdgbill]

Sorry if this has been asked before...

Should we all be trying to bring more users to GBPVR?

This occured to me as I was just setting up my sig for the Schedules Direct forum (I proudly put "GBPVR user since 2005" as the top line).

I am really unclear as to subs motivation / purpose for running GBPVR. I believe he has stated that GBPVR will never become a commercial paid product.

So... Are more users good or bad for the program?

DIY PVR's have been in the news / blogs quite a bit since the Zap2It announcement. These stories always include a mention of Myth but very rarely ever mention GBPVR. I am always tempted to make comments mentioning GBPVR (and sometimes do).

The Myth forums are full of frustrated first time builders (I know, I was one of them). Seems like it would be easy to pull in lots of new GBPVR users if we wanted to.

[pcostanza]

I'm interested in seeing just how much PVR's will adapt in the states when analog is cut off. I know alot depends on the individual providers but hardware is changing fast in that regard.

[bdgbill]

I'm interested in seeing just how much PVR's will adapt in the states when analog is cut off. I know alot depends on the individual providers but hardware is changing fast in that regard.

I'm kind of surprised this is seen as such a big issue to the DIY PVR community. I have been using digital cable with GBPVR pretty much since I started. It does bring up some issues for folks with multiple capture cards (which requires multiple STB's) but I can't imagine it's a deal killer for many people.

Cable companies giving away free PVR's are probably more of a threat. Luckily the cable companies are shooting themselves in the foot with these (no fast forward, no burning, the broadcast flag etc).