Out of curiosity, how much do MythTV users typically record on their mythboxen?

I share my machine with my girlfriend and our two roommates, so we actually record a lot... Typically we have 40 - 50 shows a week, even more if one of our shows runs a marathon. We actually had a single day where, because of two simultaneous marathons, we recorded 31 hours of video in only 20 hours (yay multiple tuners).

How do you ever watch all that stuff?
I spend more time tinkering with my box than actually recording and watching anything. (It is summer over here though and the TV sucks).

Well... We effectively have 4 frontends (we all have our own computers), so there are frequently times when more than one of us (sometimes all of us) are watching shows at the same time.

MythTV KICKS ASS!!!!

Skipping commercials saves you 10-20% of the time and then there's the time compression playback capability for the fluff... I've only got 6 hours of new stuff scheduled for the coming week, but there have been weeks where I was recording 4-5 times that much, about half of which I watched at 1.75x normal speed.

I think i record closer to 10 than 20 hours, but I'm with Greg Frost... I tinker with it more than watching...
Though now the gf has been won over, i'm under a constant threat of certain death if i 'bugger it up'.

i count approximately 88hrs over the course of the next week.

i typically watch shows at 1.4x, unless the wife is watching with me, when i watch shows at 1.2x (she gets really annoyed with the high-speed playback, i LOVE it).

also, there are several programs that are unique to myself or my wife. for instance, there are 10hrs of episodes of MASH that my wife records.
there are some kids shows that are still scheduled to be recorded, but will soon be turned off as i've already transcoded enough episodes for the few times that we babysit.
there's probably about 10-15hrs worth of music channels that we record and transcode videos out of. so for each hour of that, i *might* spend 30mins editing everything but the video out (sometimes there are more than one, each involving a separate transcode and edit) and transcoding. on the other hand there might be nothing in it, and i'm done in less than 5mins.
other shows i might not even watch. being a pilot, i record a lot of aviation-related stuff. lots of times i don't even look at it, i just edit out commercials and transcode, putting it in /myth/video/Television/Aviation.

all in all, we probably record and view about 60hrs of programming each, most of which we watch together, and time-compressed with commercial skip. i've noticed that commercial skip alone will reduce a show by about 1/3, with time compression, i can reduce it to 1/2 (at about 1.3x - 1.5x).

and that doesn't even account for the DVDs, videos, music, etc that we watch/listen to. we love the mythtv. :^)