Record Two, Watch One?

"Dan L" wrote:

I was talking to an AT&T tech the other day, who was working in my yard,
getting ready
for there u-verse launch in my city.
He told me there DVR can record 4 shows
at once, don't know if this is true, but he
said it.

No, it's not true. You can record up to four shows
per household, one hd and two sd. Their ad makes it
sound great. With Directv, using the same setup of
three dvrs, you can record six, with all of them
being in hd! Of course with Directv you can have
many more dvrs than that.

Chip

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"Steve W. Jackson" wrote in message
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"J.H. Holliday" [email protected] wrote:

Just bought a new Panasonic 42" plasma 720p and leased a Motorola High
Def/DVR cable box from Comcast, It has two tuners and is supposed to be
able
to record two separate shows at the same time. Cable is hooked up to the
DVR/box which connects to the TV by HDMI cable.

Can I watch a third show while it's recording two others-- and if so,
how do
I do that?

Most DVRs in wide use allow watching a recorded program while recording
on both tuners, for those with two tuners. But so far as I'm aware,
there's not one available anywhere that has the required third tuner for
watching a live program while recording two others.
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama

Dish Network 722 has three tuners...one for OTA, two for satellite. So you
can record three programs, 2 from sat, one from OTA, while watching a fourth
from the hard drive.
Amazing machine.

Deke

"J.H. Holliday" [email protected] wrote:

"Steve W. Jackson" wrote in message
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In article ,
"J.H. Holliday" [email protected] wrote:

Just bought a new Panasonic 42" plasma 720p and leased a Motorola High
Def/DVR cable box from Comcast, It has two tuners and is supposed to be
able
to record two separate shows at the same time. Cable is hooked up to the
DVR/box which connects to the TV by HDMI cable.

Can I watch a third show while it's recording two others-- and if so, how
do
I do that?

Most DVRs in wide use allow watching a recorded program while recording
on both tuners, for those with two tuners. But so far as I'm aware,
there's not one available anywhere that has the required third tuner for
watching a live program while recording two others.
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama

I'm assuming that the TV has a tuner too-- so I was wondering if there was
some way to access it?

The acronym "RTFM" springs to mind. Or post the model number of the
TV and I expect someone here will read it for you.

Del Mibbler

"Dan L" wrote in message
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"jack ak" wrote in message
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:47:27 -0400 J.H. Holliday
[email protected] wrote:

| Just bought a new Panasonic 42" plasma 720p and leased a
Motorola High | Def/DVR cable box from Comcast, It has two
tuners and is supposed to be able | to record two separate
shows at the same time. Cable is hooked up to the | DVR/box
which connects to the TV by HDMI cable.
| | Can I watch a third show while it's recording two
others-- and if so, how do | I do that? If I had such a box
with six tuners, and I wanted to watch a seventh show
while recording six shows, I'd need another tuner.

How many tuners do you want?


There are not six programs airing at the same time worth
saving.

It is rare there are two airing at the same time worth
saving.

I was talking to an AT&T tech the other day, who was working
in my yard, getting ready
for there u-verse launch in my city.
He told me there DVR can record 4 shows
at once, don't know if this is true, but he
said it.


There is no reason that any "tuner" could not record all the
streams in a channel at once. Stream selection can be done at
editing or playback time. One cable channel may hold 3 HD
streams, or 2 HD streams and a few SD streams. How about 50
music streams?

Add-on tuners for PCs are able to do this. The stand-alone
HD-DVRs seem to prefer not to, probably to keep disc sizes
unreasonably small and handicap the device. It's absolutely
ludicrous to require two tuners to select different streams from
the same channel.

"Jan B" wrote in message
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On 11 Jul 2008 22:29:15 GMT, wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:47:27 -0400 J.H. Holliday
[email protected] wrote:

| Just bought a new Panasonic 42" plasma 720p and leased a
Motorola High
| Def/DVR cable box from Comcast, It has two tuners and is
supposed to be able
| to record two separate shows at the same time. Cable is
hooked up to the
| DVR/box which connects to the TV by HDMI cable.
|
| Can I watch a third show while it's recording two others--
and if so, how do
| I do that?

If I had such a box with six tuners, and I wanted to watch a
seventh show
while recording six shows, I'd need another tuner.

How many tuners do you want?

Not an answer to the specific Motorola question but just to
comment on
the principles:
There is not a one to one relation between the number of
tuners and
number of shows it can handle.

I have (a DVB-T) PVR-box with 2 tuners. It can record any 2
shows and
at the same watch or time shift a third show as long as two of
the
shows are located in the same multiplex (frequency, or
transponder if
you like).
Certain sat receivers are advertised to be able to record even
more
shows from each multiplex.
/Jan

This is nice to read. The sat folks seem to be way ahead of the
cable people in DVR features. I just remarked, in another part
of this thread on the inanity of cable DVRs not being able to
record all streams in the channel at once per tuner.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:39:24 -0700 jack ak wrote:
| wrote:
| On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:47:27 -0400 J.H. Holliday [email protected] wrote:
|
| | Just bought a new Panasonic 42" plasma 720p and leased a Motorola High
| | Def/DVR cable box from Comcast, It has two tuners and is supposed to be able
| | to record two separate shows at the same time. Cable is hooked up to the
| | DVR/box which connects to the TV by HDMI cable.
| |
| | Can I watch a third show while it's recording two others-- and if so, how do
| | I do that?
|
| If I had such a box with six tuners, and I wanted to watch a seventh show
| while recording six shows, I'd need another tuner.
|
| How many tuners do you want?
|
|
| There are not six programs airing at the same time worth saving.
|
| It is rare there are two airing at the same time worth saving.

It is rare that even one airing is worth saving.

I do expect to build a couple of home-made PC-Linux-based PVRs with 4 tuners
each so I can just set them to record the whole evening when I will be away.
Then when I am back I can skip through them at a fast pace to see if there is
anything worth watching.

I do like to watch the national TV news. Because of the political bias they
all have, I would like to see them all to catch anything the others might be
trying to hide (e.g. if one of them lets it slip through). So that's at least
3 simultaneous programs I would watch when I get back.

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On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:00:39 -0500 Deke no wrote:
|
| "Steve W. Jackson" wrote in message
| ...
| In article ,
| "J.H. Holliday" [email protected] wrote:
|
| Just bought a new Panasonic 42" plasma 720p and leased a Motorola High
| Def/DVR cable box from Comcast, It has two tuners and is supposed to be
| able
| to record two separate shows at the same time. Cable is hooked up to the
| DVR/box which connects to the TV by HDMI cable.
|
| Can I watch a third show while it's recording two others-- and if so,
| how do
| I do that?
|
| Most DVRs in wide use allow watching a recorded program while recording
| on both tuners, for those with two tuners. But so far as I'm aware,
| there's not one available anywhere that has the required third tuner for
| watching a live program while recording two others.
| --
| Steve W. Jackson
| Montgomery, Alabama
|
| Dish Network 722 has three tuners...one for OTA, two for satellite. So you
| can record three programs, 2 from sat, one from OTA, while watching a fourth
| from the hard drive.
| Amazing machine.

Now if they would sell these pre-initiated for OTA ... that is, so they can
just work out-of-the-box for OTA, with no satellite subscription required,
then they could sell this in the currently empty non-subscription OTA PVR
market ... and have a "foot in the door" to market their satellite TV service
with (you won't need to get a new STB) to those who find OTA TV is just not
enough.

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