On 2/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marco Nelissen</b> <<a href="mailto:marcone@xs4all.nl">marcone@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>On 02/19/2007 08:20 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:<br>>>>>> When I said "tivo-like", I really meant "like tivo"... ;) That<br>>>>>> means a 30 minute (or some other configurable amount) on-disk
<br>>>>>> ringbuffer per tuner. Hardly something that'll fill up your hard<br>>>>>> drive.<br>>>> I'm not trying to be sarcastic here--I really want to understand your<br>>>> proposal--but how is a 30-minute ringbuffer better than just recording
<br>>>> everything and deleting the oldest stuff when space is needed.<br>>>><br>>> Not better, just different. Your solution forces me to go to the list<br>>> of recorded shows to see what it recorded. The tivo-way is to just turn
<br>>> on the TV and see what's on (tivo's default state is live TV, not a menu)<br>>> and then to back up in case you missed the beginning of what's on.<br>><br>>So, the part you want is constant playback of what's on now?
<br><br>With buffering.<br></blockquote></div><br>Couldn't you just leave it in LiveTV then?<br><br>Steve<br><br>