[mythtv-users] Why 2 cards for PIP?

[Brad Templeton]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:13:59PM -0500, Ryan A. Carris wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2005 9:17 PM, Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> (snip) 
> > I don't think you should ever need PiP once you embrace the DVR vision,
> > or if you need it, it would be extremely rare.  Almost all TVs made recently
> > have it anyway, so I have never felt it should be a priority in Myth, 2 tuners
> > or not.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I've been told before that I am wrong, but I still like watching two
> football games at once; flipping back and forth with the PIP.

So why that instead of "the DVR way" which would be recording both, and
flipping between the recordings, giving full attention to the one you are
watching, but quickly skipping over commercials, breaks in play and boring
bits?

One of the features on my wish/todo list for Myth is a jump point which means
"Go to watching previous thing."  Not watching the previous channel in live
TV, which is already there and this could do, but to switch instantly from
watching one recording and the previous recording you were watching.  (Where
a live tuner could also be one of those recordings, but it would be paused there.)

I do this manually and find it quite handy.   You're watching a show with
somebody.  That somebody needs to do something else for a minute (phone call,
bathroom etc.) so you quickly zap to a different show that you are watching
and she isn't.   As she walks back, you zap again and you're back where you
started.

Or the sports plan described above.