[mythtv-users] I'm in....
Kirby Vandivort
kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu
Fri Nov 14 10:55:20 EST 2003
> > The delay in channel changes while watching live TV is due to the face
> > that live TV is cached in a ring buffer, to make it possible to pause
> > live TV and do instant replays. 3-5 seconds of live TV is cached to your
> > hard drive before it is played on screen. When you change channels, it
> > takes a few seconds to see the channel change occur. BTW, TiVO and
> > ReplayTV do the same sort of thing, but I don't think most people use
> > them to watch TV, just to record it.
> >
> > Nelson
>
> Um, channel changes on my TiVo's are instant. This is on a regular
> TiVo and my DirecTiVo. The only time they were slow was when I had an
> external cable box and the TiVo had to change the channel using the IR
> blaster. I will admit there is a slight time delay as the TiVo buffers
> though, noticable if I watch a show on the TiVo and have the same thing
> playing on another TV.
channel changes on my tivo are _not_ instant. They don't take 3-5
seconds, but they are not instant. I'd say that they are, amazingly
enough, approximately the same length as the "slight time delay that
you get as the tivo buffers".
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Kirby Vandivort Theoretical and
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