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Advance sound different than replay sound
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Posted by: T_Hayes

This is a nit, but I thought I'd suggest it anyway...

Ok, I've programmed my Tivo with Select-Play-Select-3-0-Play to enable 30-second advance. By far, the most indispensible feature on Tivo, bar none!

Now, I'm watching something recorded previously, and it goes to a commercial. I press the Advance button several times until I see my program again - tooka-tooka, tooka-tooka, tooka-tooka... then I press Replay (8-second rewind) several times so I won't miss any of my show - again, tooka-tooka, tooka-tooka, tooka-tooka...

So, here's my suggestion: The Replay button should make a different sound than the Advance button when it is pressed. Leave the Advance button sound alone. It's practically a trademark! But change the Replay button sound so it sounds backwards, like "atook, atook, atook" or the like.

I know. It's a nit. But think about it. Doesn't it make everyone (but the person with the remote) a little crazy see the screens flashing by and not know whether you're going forward or backward?

I know that there is visual feedback when you use the Advance and Replay buttons - the time-gauge is displayed on every button-press - but the feedback isn't granular enough, and it's difficult and unnatural for by-standers to watch that gauge for the feedback than it would be to just listen for directional sounds.

What do you think? Minutia?

-Tim

Posted by: maseace

Sounds good. I think they should also display the seconds, not just minutes above the time gauge (a feature in just about every cd player in the last 20 years!)

There are a lot of simple small things that could be improved.

Posted by: classicsat

How a bout a goto funtion, where I can directly "go-to" a particular point in a program.