Not much happening, really. I've been looking for a box that I could actually see before purchase (the DIGN I've drooled after before is not just expensive, but would be a blind purchase). Can't really decide whether I want to emphasise (small) size, silence, expandability, or what..

Silverstone has introduced a few rather cool new options. I was aware of the LC03 before, but I can't get too enthusastic about hiding the DVD player behind a door, as that makes it more difficult to use. That's why the LC10 and LC11 are interesting.

However, I'm still looking for something the size of the latter with a place for an LCD/VFD display, as that would be quite useful when just playing music (having to turn on the video projector to be able to pick a playlist is annoying). Then again, a bigger box should be more silent, and would have room for a second hard disk (it didn't take long to fill up 160GB with 2gigs per hour DVB content..)

My earlier minor complaints about MythTV have started to bother me more. In particular, I really don't like the way the music player is implemented - I think that feature should be more of an integrated solution, with a single-button music on/off setting in the remote, and the GUI should only be for changing music choices. It is rather stupid that I can't for example program a TV recording without interrupting music. In fact, I'm not using MythMusic at all right now - instead, I have Rhythmbox in the background. Not ideal either, because RB is not accessible with the remote control.

There's also a weird problem I've mentioned before, where sometimes Myth loses the ability to receive DVB signal (I guess if it tries to tune to a channel which is not broadcasting, it can't recover, or something). I made a script that tries to detect from the log file when that happens and restart the backend (combined with the reload of the DVB driver), but I've had a couple of cases where it failed to record something anyway.