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Old 23-05-2011, 15:33   #4150
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Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 2

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Originally Posted by Lew View Post
You say that like it's just case of ticking a checkbox marked "Use Flash". You do realise that each "screen" is a huge amount of code written in C or C++ that would have to be completely re-written, right?

OK I didn't know that the low res screens are not in flash, but any decent programmer wouldn't code directly to the display UI but have function calls which the UI calls

It only becomes harder if you want to add more features which don't have functions already available

The current low res screens really let down the visual performance of TIVO when trying to sell it to mates

And coding a UI in flash is very simple even for a half witted programmer
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