<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Brian Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.phillips@gmx.net">brian.phillips@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Jerry Rubinow wrote:<br>
> If you are recording the output of the STB, you can record a single<br>
> channel at a time. If you have N STBs, you can record N channels at<br>
> once, as long as you have N tuners. That is, you'll need a tuner for<br>
> each STB for simultaneous recording.<br>
<br>
</div>For nomenclature's sake, this should be rephrased to:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
"If you have N STBs, you can record N channels at once, as long as you have<br>
</div>N _capture devices_."<br>
<br>
In this case, capture devices would be an encoder or firewire port.<br>
<br>
The word "tuner" implies that the device "tunes" to a frequency. With the<br>
case of a STB, the STB is doing the tuning and just outputting the result.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're right of course, I was being sloppy with my terminology. What you said is what I meant. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jerry</div></div>