Re: MCE 2005 - a P.O.S.??

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From: Todd Bowra [MSFT] (toddbow_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:21:25 -0800

Keep in mind that MVPs (and everyone else for that matter) participate in
the newsgroup entirely on a volunteer basis, so it's not always possible for
someone to immediately respond to all posts.

That bit said, please see my response to your post above. 

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"EZRyder" <EZRyder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:968CDD06-0762-4539-B998-747325F7B180@microsoft.com...
> Where are all the MS MVP's and such?  Why aren't they ersponding to my
> original post?  I think I'm hitting a sore spot here; MS Product Marketing
> has fallen down on the job, here.  What I'm asking for - what we're ALL
> asking for - is at least to up the ridiculous 30 minute thing.  My other
> issues are important, but this 30 minute thing is a deal killer.  It was a
> pain with TiVo, but TiVo offered other features that made you grit your
teeth
> and bear it - barely.  Like their UI.
>
> It's like MS took the WORST features of TiVo and RePlay and combined
them -
> RePlay's ugly, plain, UI, and TiVo's 30 minute buffer.  All this -
including
> the UI - should be customizable.
>
> "Stephan Schaem" wrote:
>
> > Their is a recorder space setting... So that part is already done.
> >
> > What MCE 2006 need to do is always record untill this limit is reached
VS the 30 minute imposed.
> > I'm cant see a single negative effect of doing this...
> >
> > The next step, a bit more tricky is to keep channel surfing history.
> >
> > Personally I dont need any of those feature since I never watch TV
live....
> >
> > My wish would be MCE 2006 to be a PVR for Voom before anything else.
> >
> > Stephan
> >
> >
> > "EZRyder" <EZRyder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1804AEAC-DE66-42EB-80C2-D922E17A556E@microsoft.com...
> > >> > 3)  Rewind time is LAME, LAME, LAME!!!  30 minutes SUCKS.  TiVo
sucks
> > >> > because of it, and I was hoping for better from MCE.
> > >>
> > >> While I think 30 minutes is a reasonable default due to disk space
> > >> requirements, I'd like the ability to tell media center the amount of
buffer
> > >> time that I would prefer.  The reason is that I have a separate 120GB
disk
> > >> for recording.  If I decide to keep something, I simply move it over
to a
> > >> different disk.
> > >
> > > I agree - it should be configurable.  I have a 120gb USB drive - and
adding
> > > another one - and I think I should be allowed to use it.  Who has LESS
than
> > > 40 or 60gb available for this stuff, anyway, these days?  We're
talkin' about
> > > a few gig per hour here.  I'd think a few hours would be an acceptable
option.
> >
> >
> >

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