That's been the sentiment of most people on the list. Bottom line is once you've used a PVR for a while, you hardly ever go "channel-surfing," since the signal/noise ratio is so low.But oddly, just reposted it yesterday in some other myth discussion areas. Something whose time has come -- if it weren't for the fact that part of "getting" a PVR is to realize that channel surfing is a silly idea.
Playing games with pre-buffering is probably a waste of time. It's difficult to say where the person will go next (e.g. Change from watching Channel 5 with Ch+-, Fav+-, Prev, '61', etc). A much more useful approach was discussed a few weeks ago. It's possible (with an ivtv-device) to get both the MPEG2 streamand the YUV stream at the same time. WatchTV could use the raw YUV data in screen overlay (i.e. just like xawtv), while still ringbuffering up the MPEG2 stream. If you hit pause, it'll switch you to the recorded stream. If you change channels, you'll only have to wait for the tuner card to sync to a new channel and spit out YUV data.... fairly quick.
Again, most people in the know enough to code this up don't care, and I don't blame them. There are lots of other more important tweaks to make. I wish I had time to play with it.
-Cory
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