Yeah, I've pretty much done all those things, and I think MythTV handles it great. Then again, I'm new to the whole PVR thing so maybe I'm just easily impressed =)
--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:15:30 -0500 > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > > >From the website: > > > Basic 'live-tv' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV > > > > > > However, how can one FF live TV without altering space and time? =) > > > > > > Seriously, what am I missing here. AFAIK the only way to FF or skip > > > commercials is with recordings. > > > > Yup; you're correct: once you've rewound live TV, there's no way to > > catch up again. > > Well in myth "live tv" IS recorded, to a large buffer file, and > simultaneiously played back to your TV. If you pause or rewind then you > will never catch up unless you skip something - but "something" might be ads. > > A more concrete example: most hour long shows tend to be between 40-45 > minutes plus ads. If you start the "Live TV" function at 9.00 pm, then > hit pause, then go make a cup of coffee/open a beer/tuck the children > in/go to the bathroom/open another beer it'll be 9.15 pm. Unpause it and > watch from the > beginning, skipping thru all the ads, and you will have > about caught up with real time by the end of the show. (I find that the > ad breaks in NZ tend to be 4 minutes, so 4 pushes of the "forward one > minute" button followed by a "back 5 seconds" tends to skip quite nicely > thanks.) > > Alternatively if you may want to watch the show much later (when it may > have spun off the end of the recording buffer) you can simply use the > record button to record it, then watch it from the "recorded shows" > screen - even while it is still recording - and once again skip thru the > ads. > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
