The alternative view: in Australia (Perth) the program info is lousy, missing or plain wrong.
Channel surfing is where its at (we only have a small handful of channels - not counting the dups), and the delays are a real pain, as is the OSD jitter which seems endemic, and the lockups, ... mythtv is a great app, but there are some real rough edges depending on your usage ... BillK On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:33 -0700, Joe Votour wrote: > I agree, with one caveat. > > I still use the LiveTV feature, although not as much > as I used to (because even though I'm on the west > coast, most of my channels are east coast feeds, which > necessitates recording everything). > > Even though I still use LiveTV, I would never, ever > "channel surf". What's the point, when you have full > program information available with only a button > press? If I'm watching LiveTV (because, perhaps I've > watched all of my recordings), when I want to find > something to watch, I'll scroll through the program > guide. It's much more effective than scrolling > through every channel. > > Even with a real TV, channel surfing is a pointless > waste of time. While you're busy going through your > 50+ channels looking for something to watch, you might > be missing something you'd actually enjoy. > ...
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