VCRs can fast forward and rewind. The PVR-350 can't, it's not supported.
Are you talking about the speed adjust? It can certainly skip forward and backward in time. The only thing I'm aware that it can't do is the "speed up/slow down" -- I have another frontend that can use that feature (nvidia video card) but... vcr's don't do that. I suppose a vcr "plays fast" and "plays in reverse" in ff and rw respectively but it doesn't speed the sound up like the myth feature does. On a vcr you "fast forward" to skip something or get somewhere else, not to "watch something fast". I digress - for skipping forward by seconds, minutes, etc, the pvr350 decoder out works just fine for me. My wife would kill me if it couldn't skip commercials. My mythbox is, I suppose, a bit more than a advanced vcr - but I have never had any desire to auto-transcode anything, play games, or anything else that the pvr350's out "can't do". It does "what a tivo does but skips commercials" and that's exactly what I need. Certainly, if you want a machine to play dvd's, games, or video files encoded with random codecs, you're going to need more general-purpose hardware -- bigger cpu and accelerated video out (and a dvd drive - I don't even have one of those in any of my myth systems!). That's not, nor has it ever been, the pvr350's niche. I'd just say that I think mythtv + pvr350 decoder out is a great thing - it works amazingly well on my P3-650 front/back-end and if it disappeared it would be a great shame -- I, and I assume many others, would be stuck on old versions of software or forced to upgrade hardware. If it's ever seriously threatened that it'll be removed due to lack of interest or "code rot", I'll volunteer now to step up and help maintain it. Mike
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