Dnia 2009-07-02, czw o godzinie 13:34 +0100, Keith Cirkel pisze: > Our biggest challenge is getting new users to "like" the software > enough to make the effort to switch over and learn it. This is both > from a developer perspective and a user perspective, as new users > means new potential devs. Slow channel changes might be a "small > thing" to the initiated but has a huge impact for new users, > especially those used to the fluidity of a consumer STB.
Yes I know, I mentioned that in one of my recent posts. > I am one of those "channel surfers" to and when I experienced mythtv > for the first time I was appalled how slowly the channel changes. Its > that kind of software behavior which pulls apart the whole experience, > a "forth wall" of software if you will. The saying "you're only as > strong as your weakest link" springs to mind here, having "great" > quality software but "shitty" quality channel changing experience, > IMO, drags the whole experience level down to "shitty". Yeah I'm starting to lean on your side here. > It is all well and good saying "well dont use livetv, its a pvr, > record everything!" but you dont make fans by forcing them to change. > Our priority should be, at a base level, providing the same level of > quality the user is used to, THEN adding extras (i.e stuff they didnt > used to have). Yeah but there are both cases when a user comes from '(No) TV' to 'TV in Moovida' as well as those who come from 'PVR' to 'No PVR in Moovida'. And now it starts being subjective - you want LiveTV more, I like PVR more, wanna fight? ;) -- Michał Sawicz <[email protected]>
