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Originally posted by thewatcher
hmm...maybe I just got a good UltimateTV.  |
You must have, or else I got a bad one...
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When I click on the guide, it ALWAYS comes up in less than 2 seconds! |
Mine always takes between 2-3. No worse than My DirecTivo grid guide, though slower than it's two-column guide.
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menu/OK/by day or time/OK/select date/OK/select time/OK/if the guide is not on the right channel, enter the channel, click OK once to record (twice for a repeat recording, 3 times to cancel). done. Less than 5 seconds. |
Here we have a major difference. On mine getting to the main search screen alone takes 5 seconds. Just bringing the search screen up after I pressed the "search TV" button took 3 seconds. The whole process took 17, and that was after drilling a few times to get the exact button sequence down, accepting all the defaults, buttoning-ahead wherever it would let me and selecting the closest show the guide brought up for recording. Most of that time was spent waiting on UTV to acknowledge my button presses and bring up new screens. If your 5 second figure is accurate than I have a seriously defective machine or we have some environmental difference, maybe the number of channels we get or something.
It took me 11 seconds to do the same thing on Tivo but date-based guide searches are a bad barometer anyway. Tivos and UTVs methods of selecting dates are different enough that comparisons could go either way depending on what date you choose. I'm more interested in routine functions like deleting shows (Tivos "clear" shortcut wins), getting
to specific screens (Tivos "Tivo+N" shortcuts win), and other functions that Tivos quicker UI response, less cluttered screens, and "accept/done/whatever" that are never more than 2 button presses away make much quicker.
Anyway this is rather besides the point which was that unless the next UTV upgrade brings it's feature set to a complete and total superset of Tivos then assurances by blabbermouthed beta testers that UTV is about to make Tivo obsolete are based on
their personal opinions of the usefulness of the new UTV features, and don't necessarily reflect how the rest of the world will feel about them. If you're worried about UTV overtaking Tivo then putting off a PVR purchase until you see what the features actually are may be prudent, but buying a UTV now based on beta testers teasing taunts about the future are not.
By the way I'd be all too happy to shut my mouth about all this. All somebody has to do is whatever is required to put me under the appropriate NDA.
