But then once a MythTV box works, it tends to stay working.

I have never paid for cable TV, mostly because I can't really afford it. Initially it was also because the boxes were idiotically simple and gave you only an RF output instead of something decent, but more recently because every demonstration of the digital service I've seen has over-compressed video. And salesmen are just not capable of seeing this as a problem.

Fortunately with digtal OTA taking off in AU, particularly with multi-channeling, the networks are mining lots of programming that hasn't seen broadcast in years. #win

Wade.