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Originally Posted by BenMcr
That has nothing to do with how old the code is - that was purely down to making sure a tuner was free so you could watch the programme you had a reminder set for, whilst at the same time doing it in a way that was cost effective.
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Whilst I'm not an expert but the age of the code in my opinion (and it is an opinion) has a huge involvement. An example would be the relatively young code of the TV guide. It provides a rapid, fluid UI experience when switching from the TV picture and back but when it gets involved with historic code (like my shows) the fluid UI and screen changes disappear.
Then the weak argument that TiVo needed to ensure that a tuner was free to set a reminder, what about just telling me that a reminder could not be set because 3 turners are in use and if I set a recording over a reminder it could tell me that too. (there may well be other reasons for the way reminders have been implement but the free tuner argument doesn't hold enormous stock as two tuner machines that record on both still have reminders that don't force a recording).
But I do agree that cost has huge bearing on what gets written and that it seems TiVo Inc. keeps all coding in house. Spreading themselves into over eight countries with very different cable companies and needs (I guess) making Virgin's programming time shorter than what's ideally needed.