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November 24th 2007 at 10:32 pm in General Recently, my MythTV box started acting ‘weird’ … initially I thought I just got a flaky SVN checkout, even after I installed a more recent version.
It was only after the machine really crashed, and one of the two encoder cards didn’t want to initialise resulting in only static coming from the card. That sucked, so I tried to reboot to no avail, the damn thing didn’t even boot. Only after removing the card the machine wanted to boot so obviously the card died.
The card was quickly removed and a replacement ordered when I noticed there was a 24-month warranty on the dead card, so this was the first time in my life I actually sent a product back to make use of such a thing.
I got word today that, indeed, the product is broken and a replacement will soon be sent to me. Woohoo!
Yeah, even though there is hardly a damn interesting thing on TV, it does occasionally occur that 3 interesting programmes are airing at the same time and we don’t have to watch those programmes live again, either.
It so effing rules to be able to skip through those annoying ads and other irritating crap — or at least to be able to not miss anything remotely important by pausing while taking a leak. 
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