Robert Denier wrote:
Good thinking!I tend to more or less agree that changing channels super fast is not too important. Small dish receivers haven't ever done this fast. Of course adding the myth layer slows things down a little, but for quite practical reasons and its no big deal.Now if one wanted a trivial way to flip channels fast, at least in principle, you could use inactive capture cards to lock on and start a stream on the next channel while your still on the current channel. Then you also need to have the decompression sequence started as well, but in principle you could double your flipping channels rate. Is it worth the trouble? I doubt it... -Robert Denier On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:33 -0700, Joe Votour wrote:I agree, with one caveat. I still use the LiveTV feature, although not as much as I used to (because even though I'm on the west coast, most of my channels are east coast feeds, which necessitates recording everything). Even though I still use LiveTV, I would never, ever "channel surf". What's the point, when you have full program information available with only a button press? If I'm watching LiveTV (because, perhaps I've watched all of my recordings), when I want to find something to watch, I'll scroll through the program guide. It's much more effective than scrolling through every channel. Even with a real TV, channel surfing is a pointless waste of time. While you're busy going through your 50+ channels looking for something to watch, you might be missing something you'd actually enjoy. -- Joe --- Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This would be a great default functionality for an idle second tuner. (IE: when a PVR-500 is not recording anything, it can help improve your performance.) But then the idle tuner has to answer the question: "Do I tune to current channel plus one or current channel minus one?" I guess the natural answer is "Assume the user is going to continue surfing in the same direction." But it won't help with the first channel change, or at least I guess there is a 50/50 chance of it being tuned to the right 'next' channel. Then you also have then problem: A PVR-500 owner always wants the second tuner to be the default for single recordings. Why? Because only the first tuner can be used for listening to the FM radio. If you try to listen to the radio while the first tuner is recording... http://www.ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2005-October/000048.html -- Thank you for your time, --==<< R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y >>==-- Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer & Outlook/Outlook Express. |
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