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Originally Posted by RobboEdin
What I don't understand, Lew, is that there already seem to be HD versions of some of the functions but they are not always accessed.
Off the top of my head, I can't remember them but I will note them down and add to this thread.
I think 'Upcoming Episodes' is one.
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It seems that the screens that have both HD and SD versions available (such as the recording options and series link screens) depend on where you're accessing them from. If you access them from a screen with the discovery bar then you get the HD version (which is why the trick of selecting "Explore this show" from the recording dialog works to get the HD series link screen). Accesing them directly from the guide gets you the SD version. The guide does seem to be separate from the main HD UI as can be seen by the fact that the screens with the discovery bar correctly pillarbox 4:3 content in the mini video window, but in the guide they're stretched to fit the mini window.
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Originally Posted by toady
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
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Thing is, we don't know how much legacy code there is in the SD sections of the code. With the TiVo product being over 10 years old who knows how much cruft there is?
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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 
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I agree. It wouldn't be quite so bad if it didn't mean losing the picture and sound of the programme you're watching. Still, I'm willing to wait and see what they can do now that they've actually got TiVo working to an extent on VM's system.
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And coding a UI in flash is very simple even for a half witted programmer 
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I'm sure it is, but there's more to TiVo than just the UI. It needs to hook into the underlying code correctly as well.