[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by DaMac

It's not so much that it was poorly written software, more like they took software that wasn't specifically written for the hardware and just added patches here there and everywhere so they could rush the item to market, remember the third tuner didn't work on launch.
Once you launched the device with all these workarounds there isn't really any going back, all you do is try to write better patches.

It's a perfect illustration of the maxim: Do NOT do at run time that you can do at compile time.

I would hazard a guess that the software is highly abstracted from the actual hardware and the processor is wasting most of its time on abstraction layers rather than actualy delivering to the user.