2008-03-25, 07:18 PM
Hi, by chance sub was good enough to show me a popcorn hour running over the weekend, and I must say I was impressed but the responsiveness of it, and the look of the HD content he had.
While demoing it, he did point out the differences to the MVP, and all in all it seemed like a good way of doing things (passing the video off the to the PCH to deal with natively rather than make pvrx2 control it as happens on the mvp).
The only thing wrong I see with this scenario is the lack of OSD, and possible the lack of access to the tv guide.
Now the OSD is not so bad, potentially with buy in from the manufacturer (or firmware producer), the episode information could come from somewhere else to be displayed (some .txt file, or xml file etc).
Of bigger problem to the WAF is the ability to look around the tv guide while inside a program, you see an ad for an upcoming show and decide to record it. Having to stop playback to go and record this from the guide would become annoying.
Do we know if it might be possible to inset the window (eg as gbpvr did before pvrx2 came on the scene) - so that control could be given back to pvrx2 and have access to the menus?
This is just my thoughts and in now way am I criticising the work that has already been done with this great little device...
While demoing it, he did point out the differences to the MVP, and all in all it seemed like a good way of doing things (passing the video off the to the PCH to deal with natively rather than make pvrx2 control it as happens on the mvp).
The only thing wrong I see with this scenario is the lack of OSD, and possible the lack of access to the tv guide.
Now the OSD is not so bad, potentially with buy in from the manufacturer (or firmware producer), the episode information could come from somewhere else to be displayed (some .txt file, or xml file etc).
Of bigger problem to the WAF is the ability to look around the tv guide while inside a program, you see an ad for an upcoming show and decide to record it. Having to stop playback to go and record this from the guide would become annoying.
Do we know if it might be possible to inset the window (eg as gbpvr did before pvrx2 came on the scene) - so that control could be given back to pvrx2 and have access to the menus?
This is just my thoughts and in now way am I criticising the work that has already been done with this great little device...