What name do you prefer...

[mulletback]

NextPVR, without a doubt. Make a clean break from the old code base and the old name.

[steeb]

People are free to post other name suggestions if they want, but they'd have to be pretty popular to get chosen at this late stage.

I wish someone had.

G3PVR really means nothing but seems good for techies but certainly no-one else that I have chatted to (particularly ladies about this)

NPVR or nPVR whatever seems more logical but still really lights no fires

I know that many domain names have been taken which makes the process more difficult but as someone else said we'll all adjust and I wish in a way I hadn't posted this, but I have, and I'm not voting for either, bit like that re-make of the film Brewster's Millions. I vote for none of the above

[johnsonx42]

I guess the important question about "G3PVR" is this: is the similarity to GB-PVR an asset or liability? It's probably both, so which outweighs the other?

[johnsonx42]

of course we could also try for a third alternative... sub, do you have a middle initial we could play around with?

[johnsonx42]

I just checked with my wife, she suggested "STMHWTMTO-PVR"; that's the short version of course, the full name would be "Stupid Thing My Husband Wastes Too Much Time On-PVR"

[whurlston]

While I like G3PVR for sentimental reasons, NextPVR gets my vote for a few reasons:

1. It's grown on me.
   
2. The need to make a clean break.
   
3. This new version is pretty radically different from the old software and deserves a new name.
   
4. Although G3PVR does have a certain appeal, some will consider it |3375p34k (which irritates the **** out of me).
   
5. I cringe at the thought of G4PVR (G6PVR could be GbPVR with the right font though). NextPVR works for all versions.
   
6. Hairy made a logo already.
   
7. [SIZE="1"]I'm still partial to Nextenders even though Martin's a traitor to the cause.[/SIZE]
   

[johnsonx42]

I just noticed you can click on the vote totals in the graph and see who voted for each name.... hope that doesn't lead to civil war between the blue and the red... hmmmm... reminds me of a bit of history:

Four score and seven(teen) days ago our sub brought forth on this forum, a new application, conceived in .NET, and dedicated to the proposition that all TV shows should be recorded equally.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that application, or any application so conceived and so dedicated, can be named. We are met on a great forum-thread of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that thread, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that application might get a name. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this thread. The brave users, present and past, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the users, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored users we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these users shall not have used in vain -- that this application, under sub, shall have a new name -- and that recording of TV shows of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[johnsonx42]

(johnsonx42 begins to worry quietly that non-US forum members won't know the original speech well enough to find it funny, and that US readers might in turn know it all too well and find such abuse of the Address to be unfunny... perhaps johnsonx42 isn't always so clever as he thinks he is)

[nia]

Johnson - you're absolutely right about at least me being clueless about any historical reference :o But we'll all get to the point where we'll look back at The Great Battle for the New Name of 2010, remembering the harsh battles and personal flames penetrating the darkness of the period without an official name. And to that point:

(I know, its not gepvr - but that is how it is pronounced.)

Ewieman, you made my point exactly. Even thought you're a fellow Dane, I read "G3PVR" as "geethreepvr"...

My support for the nPVR/NextPVR has strengthened - D34th t0 411 13tt3r5 r3p14c3d 8y num83r5!!!

[McBainUK]

I'd like to change my vote to NextPVR as G3PVR is too much like GBPVR. But, try and avoid refering to it as NPVR as that means NetworkPVR in some circles.