tvtime 0.9.7 user survey results - Sun Mar 16 17:41:41 AST 2003
    Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>


Here are the results of the survey for tvtime 0.9.7.
Many thanks to all who participated.  For reference, the survey itself
is located here:

  http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/0.9.7/survey.txt


Observations
============

 . Users running more distributions than I would have thought.  Maybe
   providing a binary tar.gz would be useful?  At least a slackware
   package?  Make sure the RPMs work under SuSE and Mandrake?

 . Users don't seem too anxious for film-detection.  Maybe they don't
   know what it's useful for, or maybe the question was worded wrong? :)

 . Many users mentioned watching TV in a small window, at least, a lot
   more than I would have thought.  I'm considering maybe we should have
   two deinterlacing settings, one for fullscreen, and one for windowed
   mode, or maybe even shut off deinterlacing if the window goes below a
   certain size.

 . Seems that most people haven't used DScaler, so not alot of comments
   available about how well we compete.

 . Everyone wants channel renumbering.


Summary of responses
====================

Feature Requests:
  . Ability to renumber channels (x4)
  . Noise filters (x2)
  . Channel names
  . Menu with channel names
  . tvtime doesn't deal with poor reception channels well
  . Teletext support

Deinterlacer requests:
  7 Better motion-adaptive deinterlacing
  3 Film mode
  2 Less CPU-intensive modes

Attractive features:
  7 Deinterlacing
  2 Easy to use
  1 On-screen-display
  1 Use of XVideo
  1 Response time

Heard of DScaler: 7/10
Used DScaler: 4/10

Distribution/kernel:
  mandrake 9 - 2.4.19-24
  debian testing - 2.4.20 + kraxel
  Red Hat 8.0 - 2.4.18-24.8.0
  ALT Linux Junior (http://www.altlinux.ru) - 2.4.18 from ALT Linux
  Suse 7.3 - 2.4.20 self compiled
  Gentoo - 2.4.20-gentoo-r1
  Slackware 8.1 - 2.4.20
  redhat 7.3 - 2.4.18
  Debian [Testing+Unstable] - 2.4.20-custom with v4l2-patch

Capture cards:
  Haupage wintv primio / bttv
  Lifeview FlyVideo 3000 / saa7134
  ATI TV Wonder / bttv
  AVerMedia AVer TV Studio / bttv
  Medion / bttv
  ATI TV Wonder VE / bttv
  pinnacle pctv pro / bttv 0.9.6
  Prolink PixelView PlayTV Pro 9D / bttv 0.9.2
  Pinnacle PCTV Pro / bttv 0.9.6

Cable Providers:
  essent kabelcom/europe
  essent kabelcom/europe
  German Telecom/europe
  over-the-air/austraila
  Rogers Television/us-cable
  over-the-air/us-broadcast

Output:
  CRT/17/85 small/fullscreen
  CRT/15/75 small/fullscreen
  CRT/21/85 small/fullscreen
  CRT/17/80 small/fullscreen
  CRT/19/85 small
  CRT/17/85 large/fullscreen
  CRT/17/?? fullscreen
  CRT/19/75 fullscreen
  CRT/17/75 fullscreen
  CRT/??/?? fullscreen
  Prj/??/?? fullscreen