For some reason, a lot of people really struggle to use my DVR. I think I understand part of the problem. They expect it to behave like an appliance, when in fact it behaves like a computer
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The dumb TiVo is much more intuitive, but much less robust. The fact that it can't do stupidly obvious things like sort recorded shows by title instead of recording date? I wish I had yours instead.
The Motorola box is nonsensical to me. There is no main menu per se; it is always playing something. To start playing a recording you have to enter a menu; why can't I just hit OK or Play or whatever and have it start playing? You have to rewind a recording after watching it. Mike constantly had to go through the list of scheduled recordings and fiddle with it. And if you think my keys for skipping around are confusing, the ones he configured were no better.
Intuition is in the eye of the beholder. No one struggles to use media players, and I find that a DVR has much more in common with that technology than with the outdated thing known as a VCR. (Reel to reel tapes? Computers abandoned those decades ago.) Why extend the outdated paradigm to accommodate all the extra stuff a DVR can do when there's already an established way of manipulating the playback of digital media?
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Intuition is in the eye of the beholder. No one struggles to use media players, and I find that a DVR has much more in common with that technology than with the outdated thing known as a VCR. (Reel to reel tapes? Computers abandoned those decades ago.) Why extend the outdated paradigm to accommodate all the extra stuff a DVR can do when there's already an established way of manipulating the playback of digital media?
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