Peter Hucker wrote:

The Sky box and a Sony DVD recorder both annoy me for another reason -
there is a delay of about 0.5 seconds between pressing a button on the
remote and something happening in a menu. And there is virtually no
keyboard buffer, so it gets behind what I'm pressing and does something
completely different. The sky box is even more annoying - it has no
cache, if I select a progam for recording, then go back to the program
listings, it reloads the bloody listings from the dish!

My LG DVD/VCR combo also has an annoying delay. I can't even enter the
data in using the number keys; I have to futz around with the arrow keys
for around 30 seconds just to enter one piece of data because of the
ridiculously poor UI (and exceptionally slow key response). I believe
the firmware coders were just plain lazy. It wouldn't have taken much to
make the UI significantly more tolerable even with the slow key response.


My Philips DVD/HDD recorder is the best--I can use the arrows /or/ the
number keys, and it accepts keystrokes almost as fast as I can press
them. /That's/ the proper way to implement it.

I don't understand why anything made recently would have a slow response.
The ZX80 was faster at key input, haven't chips speeded up since?

What isn't being into consideration is the time it takes to process/buffer
digital video signals. This is even more problematic on a DVR since you are,
in effect, viewing a recorded/delayed signal.