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Originally Posted by spiderplant
You would have spent months developing otherwise redundant software, on the off-chance that a cable company you'd never heard of from the other side of the world with a penchant for triple-tuner PVRs would decide to adopt your software several years down the line?
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Not if you're doing it right. You have a general routine for tuning and processing the signals regardless of whether it is for viewing or recording. Then you have a module to handle viewing and a module for recording. Each of these should be re-usable code so that you could:-
- view multiple channels on each of the outputs (SCART, HDMI, RF, component etc. as applicable)
- view one channel as a picture-in-picture of another channel or the guide (which is just another video source anyway)
- record multiple channels
Some of the recent software changes for the search functionality, for example, don't seem to follow the principle of "reduce, reuse, recycle". The remote control handling routines seem to have been re-written and are not consistent with the behaviour of the remote elsewhere. It's not like there's oodles of spare memory to waste in some of the older boxes, so it's a bad thing in more than one way.
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Don't let your boss find out  |
I am the boss!!! I've been in business for myself since 1988.
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Originally Posted by howardmicks
The way its going with keep losing channels and new ones not on the horizen we wont need 3 tuners anyway  |
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Originally Posted by fixerman
Please explain! I do not understand what you mean. I am perfectly happy with the channel line up.  |
Why SpongeBob SmartyPants, you cynic! To suggest that the VM content selection is so poor that we will soon only need to view or record one channel at a time is nigh sacrilege. You go and wash your mucky mouth out with your own sponge!!!
