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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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15 February 2003 - 1:01 am
The replay TV here in apartment 12 is, in general, a success. I watch more TV shows than before, but spend less time in front of the TV. The downside is that interacting with the Replay TV is usually a frustrating experience. The scheduling engine seems kludgey at best and there is often a two or three second lag between pressing a button on the remote and things happening on the screen.
The main area that sonic blue needs to improve is the scheduling of shows to record. If I want to record CSI from 8-9pm on Thursdays as a guaranteed recording, their engine prevents me from recording anything else during that time block on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The ability to differentiate days of the week would be a huge step forward for this system.
The other main issue is responsiveness. I don't much care about the delay involved in flipping between channels. I understand that buffering is taking place, and its no different than using the digital cable my parents have. But what i do mind is pressing a button on the remote, waiting a bit while nothing happens, thinking the replay TV hadn't received the signal, pressing the button again, and then having the replay TV respond to both button presses, usually by undoing whatever I was trying to do.
Posted by on 15 February 2003 at 1:00 AM
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The Tivo machine had a linux kernel so you could hack into it and have your way with the box.
Posted by rkc on 15 February 2003 - 4:32 PM