Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion
by dreamcompiler on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:19AM
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Exactly. Just having two decoders instead of one would drastically improve the 80% use case of consecutive channel surfing.
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Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion
by oasisbob on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:28AM
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Some TVs including Samsungs have dual tuners.
However, even if the read-ahead tuner was perfectly predictive you'd still need to flip through channels fairly slowly, otherwise you'll outrun it - about a second a channel.