{"id":907,"date":"2007-10-22T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/practical-mythtv-for-1495us\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T05:01:32","slug":"practical-mythtv-for-1495us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/practical-mythtv-for-1495us\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical MythTV for $14.95US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julie at Apress let me know that over at Bookpool: Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC<\/a> they’re having a big sale of Apress titles, including Practical MythTV.<\/p>\n

So over there now for (a bit) less than $15US you can get Practical MythTV. Pretty neat. So everybody should go buy two copies (buy one get one free… right? :)<\/p>\n

At some point soon, I’ll even post how I go with upgrading my MythTV box to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)… once I gather up the courage to do so :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julie at Apress let me know that over at Bookpool: Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC they’re having a big sale of Apress titles, including Practical MythTV. So over there now for (a bit) less than $15US … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythtv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-eD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":862,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/13\/another-positive-review-for-practical-mythtv\/","url_meta":{"origin":907,"position":0},"title":"Another positive review for Practical MythTV!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-07-13","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at fosswire.com, there's a review of Practical MythTV. 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Quickly I turned it all up the right way: It's here!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "mysql"","block_context":{"text":"mysql","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/work-et-al\/mysql\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":881,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/5-star-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":907,"position":4},"title":"5 star reviews","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-08-20","format":false,"excerpt":"2 out of 2 reviews on Amazon for \"Practical MythTV\" are 5 stars. That's a good feeling. 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