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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Bringing up an old subject…</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I don’t know if any of you have looked at a windows
product called SageTV…</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It has (IMHO) an elegant way of dealing with the recording
of live tv, saving of programs from the start, etc. It basically is recording
ALWAYS, and you are always viewing a recording. Doesn’t use a ringbuffer
as far as I know. So for example, if you start watching a show 1 on ch 3, and
then show 2 on channel 4, it makes a recording called show1-ch3-[date-time] and
a recording called show2-ch4-[date-time] and so-on. Note that you are ALWAYS
WATCHING A RECORDING. So if you rewind, it just goes to the previous recording.
These recordings are the 1<sup>st</sup> things to be deleted to make room for
other recordings. If you happen to want to keep one of the recordings, you just
mark it as “keep” and it doesn’t get deleted. The amount of
time required to switch channels is enough to create the new files. If you
happened to start watching a program in the middle, if the tuner was already on
that channel when you started watching, you’d be able to watch the show
from the beginning. It could be set up so that if you’re not currently
watching, the tuner would change to your most favourite channel if it had no
scheduled recordings to do, just in case you happen to start watching you could
see a program from the beginning (and have a recording of it). The
possibilities with multiple tuners and multiple favourite channels would make
sure that when you started watching, you’re likely to have your favourite
shows already available to you.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Might take a major change in the design to go from the ringbuffer
model to the “always watching recordings” model, so I guess people
will need to speak up to see if that’s something they want and if the
developers are interested.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And BTW – just like the max ringbuffer space setting
that already exists, the automatic recordings space could be limited to stop
your hd from filling up with unwatched programs. Also, this might not be for
everyone, so it should be able to be switched off.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thoughts??</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-Andy.</span></font></p>
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