[mythtv-users] Am I able to stop auto-recording?

[Marco Nelissen]

>On Mar 26, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>
>> In fact, I'd say that you'll get more users by *always* recording,  
>> even if
>> nobody is watching. This is what Tivo does, and adds the advantage  
>> of being
>> able to go to live TV and then immediately back up 30 minutes (the  
>> default
>> size of Tivo's buffer) and play from there. It also allows you to  
>> go back
>> to the menu and do things there (like schedule some recordings or  
>> check
>> out the weather), then go back to live TV and pick up where you  
>> left off.
>> Now, be honest: wouldn't you like to be able to do that?
>
>It would be kinda cool to give this option. I would turn it off (and  
>it should be off by default) since I don't want my hard drives to  
>spin all day every day for stuff I'm not watching, but it would be  
>neat. I guess it would act just like if you left LiveTV on all the time.

Not exactly. Multi-tuner Tivo's (i.e. DirecTivo's with 2 tuners)
record on all (2) tuners all the time, whereas Myth-LiveTv only
records on the one you're watching, I think.