Re: Live TV not really Live?

When buying an MCE PC where exactly does it tell you before purchasing
that "live"TV will be delivered a few seconds after broadcast? You can
bet it's not mentioned in the advertising or by the sales droids.

If you've never had a PVR before why would you assume such a design.
If I was designing such a system I would pass live TV straight through
from the TV card to the graphics card, while writing the buffer as a
parallel activity. The buffer would only be used *if* a PVR function
was called into operation.

The benefits would be - instant channel changing, better picture
quality and a far more relaxed disk drive, not thrashing back and
forth writing a bit then reading the same thing moments later.

IMHO the general design of PVR that work with a buffer delay is
stupid. I'm sure any right minded individual would agree.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:55:25 -0400, "Jaime" <jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Why did you buy MCE, whose features include PVR features, and they complain
>that it includes PVR features? MCE, like TiVo, Replay TV, etc.. buffer the
>video so you can pause, rewind, ff, etc. live TV - that is the whole point!
>
>It is not Dell or MS's fault that you didn't understand what you were
>buying, Dell and MS offer lots of products, no one "forced" you to buy a
>system with MCE loaded.
>
>If it bothers you that much, go out and find some other TV viewing software
>that allows you to directly view TV (you can probably download one),
>although I'm fairly certain that this is never going to be instantaneous,
>seems like there would always be a slight delay for processing.
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