On 9/8/05, Dag Nygren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Blammo wrote: > > >Not being as facetious as it sounds... but do that many people > > >actually watch LiveTV on their myth box? personally I could go a month > > >and never watch LiveTV, myth box or not. That's the advantage of a > > >PVR... <aside from the fact that LiveTV + HD works so poorly> > > > > > > > > > > Every single day Live TV is used by someone in my household. None of > > them however channel surf. They all use the guide to select what they > > want to watch. > > Same here. The DVB tuner is a replacement for a commercial box.
I've posted this idea before, but I'll post it again: It seems to me a reasonable idea to have a live TV mode (or an option for a live TV mode) that doesn't provide any PVR functionality (and therefore doesn't have a ring buffer, etc). Sure you won't be able to pause or rewind, but hey, if you insist on live TV surfing, that's what you get. I would personally never use such a mode, but I know that others in my household would. If such a feature existed, then it might be useful to have the record button start recording on the current channel (thereby incurring a slight delay) and then watching the new recording-in-progress. This would then give the PVR functionality, but of course would mean that further channel-surfing would raise a warning about the tuner being busy. Why do I think this is a reasonable approach? First, I don't think live TV is all that useful, and thus it wouldn't be used by seasoned PVR users. Live TV is for channel-surfers, and channel-surfers probably have less of an expectation of PVR functionality. Second, I can imagine that there could be an option to allow users to select whether they want live TV to work this way or the current PVR-way. I suspect there would be a complication in implementing this, having to do with what happens when the backend wants to use the tuner for a scheduled recording. But other than that, I don't really see the downside to this, and in fact I would view it as yet another feature that MythTV has that Tivo doesn't. Peter _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
