How long to display list of recorded TV in Media Center

[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?

 

[Mike]

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

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

HTH
HAND

 

[Mark Levitski]

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

 

[Mark Levitski]

I agree, refirgerator is not nessessary if you don't smoke

 

[Gary Mount]

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.