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My TVDrive (on the rare occasion that it's not rebooting itself) is slower than my Pace in channel changing, although appears faster when just browsing across the TV guide.

I would suggest that if you were to get a TVDrive anytime soon you would, as you have suggested, fell massively 'let down'. Some major software improvements are required sooner rather than later, certainly to improve the 'service' being afforded us guinea pigs (at full cost).