[mythtv-users] I'm in....

[Kirby Vandivort]

> > 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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