I have to chime in here, and say I whole heartedly agree with Juhis. Our biggest challenge is getting new users to "like" the software enough to make the effort to switch over and learn it. This is both from a developer perspective and a user perspective, as new users means new potential devs. Slow channel changes might be a "small thing" to the initiated but has a huge impact for new users, especially those used to the fluidity of a consumer STB.
I am one of those "channel surfers" to and when I experienced mythtv for the first time I was appalled how slowly the channel changes. Its that kind of software behavior which pulls apart the whole experience, a "forth wall" of software if you will. The saying "you're only as strong as your weakest link" springs to mind here, having "great" quality software but "shitty" quality channel changing experience, IMO, drags the whole experience level down to "shitty". It is all well and good saying "well dont use livetv, its a pvr, record everything!" but you dont make fans by forcing them to change. Our priority should be, at a base level, providing the same level of quality the user is used to, THEN adding extras (i.e stuff they didnt used to have). ---- Keith Cirkel On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 2009-07-02, czw o godzinie 14:48 +0300, [email protected] pisze: > > What does timeshifting mean? I mean, you can pause tv in vdr aswell, > > in > > which case it starts recording the stream. But does timeshifting mean > > that > > you must also be able to rewind the stream i.e. record-as-default, I > > don't > > know... > > Yes, timeshifting means that you can pause, rewind and fast forward in > all the content since you've started watching the channel until [now]. > > --8<-- > > > Well, I'm a long time pvr user who still predominantly watches > > LiveTV... > > Maybe the PVR stuff in your software of choice wasn't good enough :] > > --8<-- > > > .. and here's where we disagree ... :) > > Well ;) > > -- > Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> >
