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Originally Posted by Khris
A message to everyone who thinks THEIR BTV feature request is more important than anyone elses.
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Well, this is what you think. In the last thread initied by Brett, I don't remember anyone claiming that a feature is more important that any other. Everyone was asked the feature they want to be included in BTV / BM / Firefly...
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What makes you so much more important that your childish "need" should take priority over other more popular issues?
DVB vs Integration for example.
Integration has been promised by SS for well over a year and is an EXTREMELY hot issue that deserves attention. DVB does not. (YES THIS IS MY OPINION) There are not as many people who would benefit from having BTV support DVB compared to BM and BTV Integration, plain and simple!!
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On the contrary you are trying to prove that the feature you want is more important than others.
Integration has been promised.
DVB has been promised in the same way
And some other features also are "in the works"
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Perhaps because I would like to see a couple new features, I should go on a crusade to have them added at all costs and slam everyone elses ideas because they aren't mine.
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I don't remember anyone going into a crusade.
From my point of view, I do think that BTV should :
* be a all in one product (so go for integration)
* be open to other countries, this means : supporting other capture means (DVB be one of them), supporting other languages (users can very well translate thing all alone, but the infrastructure to support this is only to be found in 3.6 version)
* refine it's UI
* propose some Internet streaming to many devices (PC / Extender / Phones) including transcoding LiveTV (from MPEG2 or whatever to a streaming format).
Without this (and this is my opinion), BTV is not as appealing as other products already available or to be available.
So as many other BTV users, I made the BTV choice because a few years back it was the best product available. It's clearly not the case anymore (for me and for others). That's why we are voicing our opinion when we are asked to, in the hope we can made BTV evolve as a loyal supporters.
That said if SS is not able to offer some of the feature asked by some users, this is not the end of the world because there is competition.
DVB Users : there is already already 4 competitors and one to come (not including Media Center)
Those who want integration : there is already many competitors and more to come (not including Media Center)
For my own personal usage, this is how I see things in the near future :
* I already dropped BTV for another competitor product (since april 2006)
* I'm waiting for a new class of hardware to be available (DVB-S2 satellite card)
* I'm waiting for new PVR Software that will support : payed subscription and H.264 HDTV
The first software to get out that let me watch paid TV with a simple UI will get my money.
Though I would be happy to take the BTV boat again when they will be ready. Today and in the near future, from what we can all read here, they are not ready to offer anything valuable for European market, and to me it's sad because I do think they have a potential market.
However, I do not know the potential market size, so the investment for opening to non U.S.A. market could be hudge without returns, that's why I do recommend SS to not invest too much but only change a little BTV to adapt to other countries :
* External recorder : this do not involve having access to foreing stream. This is also useful for U.S.A. market (firewire / QAM / network clustering...)
* Language infrastructure : ressource externalisation, this is already done. But currently when you upgrad to another version of BTV => all language change must be done again. The same goes for user aspect ratio for instance : this is simply bad software design and should be fixed.
And there is many many things that would benefit the BTV product for US and non US market. For instance another big issue is captionning. It seem still odd to me that BTV (and it's main competitor) doesn't support fully closed caption. This issue should be adressed, and adressed well : because not all countries are using the same way to include captionning into the broadcast. Again this is design decision : a good design will be future proof, a bad design is a dead end and will cost money.
If you want you can go to the Media Portal forums and read posts about design decision : you'll be able to read some great design decision regarding some issues (international issues or not). This is the result of a great community exchange about a PVR product (Though MediaPortal has still a loooooong way to go)
I don't see why on the SnapStream forums we cannot have the same discussions to make evolve the BTV product, without being constantly attacked.
Best Regards,
Stéphane.