[mythtvnz] Channel changing time

[Noel & Di]

Ahhh! that reminds me of the day I removed "Watch TV" from the menu... 
War & Peace revisited.
I now  have an old MaxPlus receiver as a stand-alone unit for live TV, 
spliced into the RF feed which maintains the WAF
and helps me weather periods of stress.  It only took a couple of 
minutes of missed Coro to reduce the WAF to zero.
However when the Wednesday night screening resumed & was automatically 
recorded (Record at any time on any channel) WAF = 0.92
Definately an improvement.
Noel

David Lowe wrote:

>I'm struggling with driving the 'household habit' changes that you need to
>make with a PVR. What I mean is that the way some people (typically of the
>opposite gender, sorry) watch TV is to channel surf. Some (the one I'm
>married to and my adult daughter) even seem to manage to watch at least two
>programmes at once which I hate. I guess it's a guy thing. Fundamentally,
>this is not a good way to operate a pvr. I've tried to explain that the best
>way to use the media centre is to decide what you want to watch in advance
>and time lapse it, but they just don't seem to get it and complain about the
>2 second channel change delays when they try to surf. 
>
>So we are getting to the point where I have banned them from using the
>frontend for Live TV - it's just too much aggro to deal with and causes the
>WAF to plummet. I might even take it off the menu.
>
>I guess the way we watch TV will change in time, but it is a harder change
>process than I expected it would be. 
>
>They do however love it when a recorded programme skips the ads. Now if I
>could get the ad-zapping happening while a programme is recording that would
>be sensational.
>
>- David
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Rout [mailto:nick.rout at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2007 2:38 p.m.
>To: toby.mills at np.co.nz; MythTV in NZ
>Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Channel changing time
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>I often "trail" a programme. Often reasonable stuff starts at 8.30,
>but we are often getting the kid to bed, making coffee, finishing the
>dishes etc. I set it to record and sit down at 9.00 ish, and then
>watch the recording. You can flick through the ads and generally you
>"catch up" to live TV, depending on the number of interruptions.
>
>On Dec 5, 2007 2:26 PM, Toby Mills <toby at np.co.nz> wrote:
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>> Yes, concur on this one.
>> I can't remember the last time anyone in our family used Live TV. Its a
>>swear word and something the ill informed masses have to do :)
>> If you want to watch something, record it (and watch something else while
>>its recording), then you can cut all those pesky ads.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Toby
>>
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