For the last year or so my dedicated media box has been running MediaPortal on Windows. It's been a good little setup all in all, but using Windows always bugs me.

In the last week the harddisk on the box popped and I had to replace it so I thought I'd give MythTV and Mythbuntu a shot.

First of all I'd like to say that Mythbuntu 8.10 is a great little package and it does vastly simplify the process of setting up MythTV.