[mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow !!!!!

Scott Alfter mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org
Thu Dec 9 20:05:18 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Nathan Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:10:41 -0800, Scott Alfter
> <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Why are you still watching live TV?  The whole idea behind a PVR (whether
> > it's MythTV, TiVo, or something else) is that you let it record stuff and
> > watch it at your convenience. 
> 
> Uhhh...what if it's convenient to watch it live?  :-) 

Sitting through ads isn't what I'd call "convenient."  "Waste of time" would
be more accurate.  (Then again, before I bought a TiVo ~4 years ago, I was
taping everything on a couple of VCRs and watching it later.  PVRs just make
timeshifting and ad-skipping more convenient.)

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