How long to display list of recorded TV in Media Center

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Gary Mount

I have a new i7 (a quad core with HT - for 8 threads) computer and I have
been running Windows 7 on it. I have not run Vista on it yet. I had Vista
with my previous computer, a Pentium 4 with HT. As I recorded TV with Vista
on my older computer, the time to display the list of TV recordings would
grow longer and longer, eventually taking 2 minutes (my screen saver would
kick in before media center was finished compiling the list) with around 500
to 600 recordings or more.

On my new i7 computer running Windows 7 RC, with about 500 recordings
(double that if I plug in my external drive), the time it takes to display
the list is almost instantaneous. Does Windows 7 Media Center have a better
algorithm for calculating the list than the Vista version of Media Center,
or is my i7 computer that much faster than a 6 year old computer?
What length of time are Vista Media Center users experiencing on newer
hardware with regards to displaying the list of shows?
 
Mark Levitski said:
You see?
This is what OS has turned into.
Recording live TV!

it's not work anymore, it's watchign TV, photos, typi9ng a life away on
Social websites. WHo cares about function, it's important to have a right
videoplayer and have WinExplorer display files in God knows what logic
randsom view setting,s it thinks dlls and exe are image files and shoul
dbe displayed as thumbnails, sometimes.

I made a big mistake. i should've stayed with WInXP
Click to expand...

The mistake, moron, was actually made by your mother. She should've
swallowed.

HTH
HAND
 
You see?
This is what OS has turned into.
Recording live TV!

it's not work anymore, it's watchign TV, photos, typi9ng a life away on
Social websites. WHo cares about function, it's important to have a right
videoplayer and have WinExplorer display files in God knows what logic
randsom view setting,s it thinks dlls and exe are image files and shoul dbe
displayed as thumbnails, sometimes.

I made a big mistake. i should've stayed with WInXP
 
TV recording on my computer is an added bonus. It barely consumes any
resources of my computer even when recording 2 or 3 shows at the same time.
I use this computer for software development and have 4 monitors plugged
into it. I run several virtual machines, I often re-encode video so I can
play it on my mobile devices.
I used WinXP to record TV using the application that came with the TV tuner.
Media Center made the experience so much nicer.
 
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