<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You win for coming up with the worst nightmare of a solution to a<br>delay in changing channels problem. So now I will need 6 tuners in my
<br>box to watch Live TV instead of 2 (1 SD, 1 HD)? And each will thrash<br>my hard drive whenever I enter LiveTV mode recording 3 streams all<br>the time? And when something wants to take a tuner to record then the<br>problem isn't solved any more? Yikes. Talk about a big effort for
<br>little (no?) gain.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
Didn't say it would be pretty, or even reasonable. <br>
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The PVR 500 dual tuner cards are relatively cheap, and HD cards are
getting cheap as well. You run out of PCI slots too quickly...<br>
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At least for SD, I think your hard drive could keep up with 3 streams recording pretty easily.<br>
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If you have four SD tuners, why not use them for good if they are idle? HD may be a bit much...<br>
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Myth already works around conflicts for scheduling. And this is
not even a conflict, as when you need a tuner to record something you
just revert back to single tuner mode.<br>
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And in reality, most people go up or down, so a dual tuner system would
suffice. Think of it as intelligently using an idle tuner to
buffer the most probable next live tv requst, like HTML prefetch.
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