[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 22, 2006, at 12:00 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> Ed Gatzke wrote:
>>
>>             ...which goes right out the window as soon as you start
>>     channel surfing. No PVR can solve that problem.
>>
>>
>> MythTV could solve the problem, or at least limit the apparent impact
>> of delay when surfing.
>>
>> Use three tuners at once, so the video stream for the +1 and -1
>> channels are already being recorded, eliminating the buffering delay.
>> There would be a slight delay while you switch the player to a new
>> video file, but that may be minimal compared to the buffering when
>> changing to a new signal.
>
> Actually, the comment you're quoting above didn't refer to that, I  
> don't
> think.  It was in reference to the pause/rewind feature.  Once you  
> start
> flipping channels, you lose the ability to easily rewind back through
> what you're watching, because each channel flip starts a new  
> recording.

Yeah, but *if* a second tuner is reading your mind and recording the  
next channel, you could flip to it and rewind to the point where it  
started recording (when you started recording the last channel you  
were on).

And no, I don't mind defending features that I don't want. :)