[mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

[Brad Templeton]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:44:34PM -0500, Jeff Wormsley wrote:
> Brad Templeton wrote:
> 
> >I find with sports you can easily watch a game in about 50% of the time,
> >skipping over the commercials and gaps between plays, or putting some
> >sections on timestretch.
> > 
> >
> Dunno about that...  Something about watching sports "live" just seems 
> better.  Sure, the outcome won't change any, but its just the perception 
> that even though it is completely passive, you are a part of something.  
> That's probably why I never record sports.

For me at least, I found that at first it seemed to be an issue to watch
the sports non-live, but you get over it eventually, and you get more
annoyed you can't hit the FF button during a pitching change or
time-out or whatever.

On the Tivo, which is what I used before mythtv, you had the nice ability
to pause the live show (without turning it into a recording) and watch
a bit of something else just to build your buffer.

In the scheme I describe above, you're rarely watching more than 15 or
20 minutes behind live, which is pretty closed to live, close enough
that you don't have to play the "don't find out" games you do with
day-later watching.

Unless you are watching one game where they give you the score of
the other game in a window!