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Old 05-29-2005, 03:31 PM
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Re: TiVo service canceled and then some

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Originally Posted by flavius
... 1. I wanted to get at least another year, maybe two years out of my server. BTV wouldn't allow smooth timeshifting for anything recording with a quality higher than 'Good'. Now I can.
I record at DVD HI-Res and everything is generally smooth as glass, even while playing back the same show I'm recording.

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2. The BTV UI is unbearably slow sometimes, sluggish. I would have to make sure not to keep too many shows around, otherwise it would get worse. Not a problem anymore. I could even use 3d accelerated. Amazing how fast a transparent epg can be.
Yes, there is currently a nasty performance hit here, but the devs are aware of it and I feel certain it WILL be addressed.

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3. BTV requires use of web admin which clearly is a sub-par piece of software. Now I have administration in one UI.
Agaun, granted, an FSUI could and should be developed for the Viewscape to replace Webadmin.

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BTV has serious architectural issues. Some of them are at display when you use the webadmin. I have been running Beta versions of BTV for a year now. And I don't like what I have been seeing. Let alone the design of what might be coming up.
Would you mind elaborating for the rest of us?

Flavius, as a long time member of the Forum and frequent contributer, your opinion is important to me, so please elaborate. I don't see ALL the problems you are experiencing with DVD Hi-Res recording. I DO still have occasional choppy playback issues that I'd like to get resolved but am not yet ready to totally blame SnapStream until I have troubleshot my rig. I'm still going to stick it out and hope the developers can fix some things under the hood, so to speak;
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