the first remote I ever saw was on my parents silver Zenith VCR that went with our faux wood grained Zenith TV, and it had a cable (c.1984). I believe that VCR was destroyed by my repeated showings of Back to the Future. I must have watched that movie at least 100 times.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2007 12:58 PM, <<a href="mailto:greg@nodecam.com">greg@nodecam.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> What I meant by "instant response" was when you press the button to change<br>> the channel, the channel would change as fast as one could imagine it<br>> changing, rather than 1-2 seconds behind as some tuner cards do (my
<br>> PVR-250<br>> performed like this when I used it under MS Windows with the included<br>> Hauppauge PVR software, which was much slower than Myth). I'm not sure<br>> what<br>> the cable box lag would actually be if you were to log it on an
<br>> oscilloscope<br>> or something, but maybe 50-100ms.<br><br></div>Ah - sorry - I thought you were referring to using the cable box's guide<br>over the capture card, which I thought was a pretty silly idea.<br>
<br>50-100ms is pretty good - I think I'm looking at probably closer to<br>250-500 ms on my digital cable box.<br><br>The satellite receiver I had before that was much much much worse (worse<br>than Myth by a large margin) which "cured" me of channel surfing.
<br><br>Myth used to be quite bad for channel surfing lag, but I think it's in the<br>half second ballpark for me now with livetv (again, not that I do it.)<br>What version are you running?<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>> me at all, but my wife likes to channel surf. So when you change the<br>> channel up 20 times, and then realize you skipped over a channel you<br><br></div>Ah - I don't even have channel-up/channel-down mapped on my remote, so
<br>maybe I'm being shielded because I'm actually punching in channel numbers<br>when I flip back and forth from channel to channel (usually when I've only<br>got one tuner available, but I want to watch two games at the same time.)
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> designed well, it will work as the user wants it to work. For the last 27<br>> years at least (I'm 27 years old), most any TV I have used was capable of<br>> changing channels about as fast as you can press/release the channel
<br>> up/down<br>> button, or capable of stopping on the channel currently displayed when the<br>> channel up/down button is held (some older cable boxes excluded). What<br><br></div>I think if you go back to the very start of that 27 year period, you'll
<br>find that remote controls were not in common use. I'm 32, and I remember<br>the first time I saw a remote control - and it was connected with a wire.<br>Just a nitpick, I'm sure you don't remember a time without remotes. ;)
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I'm referring to would be on an SDTV or a computer monitor<br><br></div>Digital? I think digital tuners tend to be a lot more laggy than analog,<br>at least from my experiences. It was extremely offputting when I first
<br>got satellite TV back in 199<mumble> (don't remember) but I eventually<br>"got used to it." Myth wasn't a step back for me in that regard, since I<br>still had satellite when I first set up Myth.
<br><br>It'll never be as fast as tuning a channel on a TV though.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Greg<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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