Can a TV nerd point me to an understanding of why we could flip through channels super fast in the 90s, but today's televisions take ~5 seconds per channel to tune in?
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It all comes down to bandwidth. My IPTV cable box can only ‘tune’ 4 channels at same time. So it could record 3 while watching a fourth. But certainly not tens or hundreds.
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It would be nice if they used that to accelerate zapping while you're not recording.
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HD videos streams can take 2 to 5Mb/s. You are right that if the tuner could predict the next channels you were going to browse to, the user experience could be sped up substantially.
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That’s a great idea and I’m not sure why we can’t decrypt and store 5 seconds of each of 1000 channels in a circular queue for browsing. It sounds wasteful but many have the bandwidth and compute power to opt in to such a service. Keep a channel surfing channel in the cloud?
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MythTV provides indexing so a prototype wouldn’t take more than a month or so
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