Slow

They can't make the channels change faster on these piece of **** boxes?

Slow down, go take your meds.

It switches a lot more than just the eff'ing channel. It's also switching
out the rewind buffer. If you want fast then go back to hauling your ass
off the couch and spinning the channel knob on an old school RF tuner.
Yeesh.

In article , "Bill Kearney" wrote:
They can't make the channels change faster on these piece of **** boxes?

Slow down, go take your meds.

It switches a lot more than just the eff'ing channel. It's also switching
out the rewind buffer. If you want fast then go back to hauling your ass
off the couch and spinning the channel knob on an old school RF tuner.
Yeesh.

Also, if one is using a satellite, it take a sec or two while the multiswitch
does its job.

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:45:06 -0500, Bill Kearney wrote:

They can't make the channels change faster on these piece of **** boxes?

Slow down, go take your meds.

It switches a lot more than just the eff'ing channel. It's also switching
out the rewind buffer. If you want fast then go back to hauling your ass
off the couch and spinning the channel knob on an old school RF tuner.
Yeesh.

That is correct, since it is a Tivo it is writing it to the drive, then
reading it back from the drive.

The fact that the stream is digital also plays a part. It has to buffer
enough of the stream to paint the picture, and it may have to wait for a
proper starting point. I am speculating, but it is not the same as
switching to a live analog signal that will display the next frame as soon
as the right channel is tuned.

BH

Joe Smith wrote:

Nog wrote:

Yes, but it's traveling at 186,000 miles a second (light speed). The
delays are built in and stupid.

The old analog sets have no error-correcting code, no cyclic redundancy.
Digital media have such things; that is how they can produce proper
results even when some bits are flipped.

Some of the delay you are seeing is because the tuner/decoder has to
buffer up a bunch of bits before it can process separate blocks of
data. It is a delay that is inherent in the design of digital
block transmission, and is the price you have to pay to have
crystal clear digital results (as opposed to snowy analog reception).
-Joe

Snowy sometimes, but crystal clear other times. Snowy is equivalent to
digital pixalation which happens as often as snowy did. Analog signal
decreased with distance or weather but was still there. Digital is 100% or
zero unless it's a frozen picture.