[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

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.

I am the boss!!! I've been in business for myself since 1988.

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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!!!