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

[J Donavan Stanley]

One thing TiVO does is blank the screen when you change the channel.. 
It gives you an indicator that at least somethign has happened.

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:15, Nelson Butterworth wrote:
> 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
> 
> bpierce815 at charter.net wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 06:27:01 -0800 (PST)
> >  Peter Greis <peter_greis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings All,
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> >> One observation is that it takes an eternity (4-5
> >> seconds) to change channels. Is anyone else seeing
> >> this ?
> >
> >
> > I also see that it takes a long time to change channels, I was 
> > attributing mine to the slow cpu(C3 Nemiah).  But I am not sure that 
> > this is correct. I am also seeing video and audio get a little jumpy 
> > when the OSD comes up.  Are you seeing this as well? What hardware are 
> > you running?
> >
> > - Ben
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