Ah, my first press release. This is the most attention anything I've done has ever received. Part of me wishes it was for something less mundane than writing a driver for some off-the-shelf consumer hardware, but I guess I can't complain. It's not often that Slashdot posts about driver releases.

What has been interesting is the response from the community that the press exposure has generated. Criticism that I was expecting—lack of kernel 2.4 support, for example—hasn't come up at all, and the response on Slashdot was decidedly positive which is almost unheard-of. The only (reasonable) complaint so far, besides the missing features like VBI and PAL which I'm planning to remedy anyway, is the price of the Plextor devices compared to similar products. The "Plextor quality costs extra" argument only goes so far, especially considering that Lifeview and Georgia Tech are selling substantially identical GO7007-based units for 25-50% less.

Plextor has been kind enough to donate a TV402U to Isaac Richards, author of MythTV, so maybe soon Myth will support these guys. Ultimately, I'd like to see ODMs develop self-contained PVRs running MythTV with WIS hardware on-board, but we'll have to see. For now, I'll be content to just get some community support around the GO7007.