[mythtv-users] Channel Surfing is a Myth

Derek Conniffe derek at rivertower.ie
Fri Jun 24 14:08:18 UTC 2005


Is Myth able to watch channels and automatically change tuners now?  I think
that it wouldn't do this for me with MythTV 0.16 with a PVR350 and a Nexus-S
- I think I had to manually press the t key on the [nonexistent] keyboard
which kind of put a stop to channel surfing.

Derek 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Donavan Stanley
Sent: 24 June 2005 14:46
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Surfing is a Myth

On 6/24/05, J. Scott <jscott9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not real clear on why anyone would channel surf and try to figure out
what to watch via their mythtv box. First of all, you'll have to watch
commercials (blech!). Second, you have to deal with the pause between
channels, not to mention the fact that your box is running hard for no
reason, having to compress a video signal, write it to disk, read it from
the disk, decompress it, and deliver the video output.

On a fast machine using a decent filesystem there's not much of a delay.
That being said, traditional channel surfing, where one hits chan up/down
repeatedly is silly on a Myth box since you *know* whats on the other
channels by using the guide.  Find a show that interests you then then
change the channel to it, don't change the channel looking for a show.

Then again, I used DirectTV and Tivo for so long that I grew acusstomed to
the paradigm.
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