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Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion by dreamcompiler on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:19AM (#15617025)
Exactly. Just having two decoders instead of one would drastically improve the 80% use case of consecutive channel surfing.
Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion by oasisbob on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:28AM (#15617053)
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.