Originally Posted by clinteastman (Post 35154691)

Yes, if I remember part of the deal is feature parity with TiVo's products.

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle (Post 35154832)

as they should have done the first time (I would have).

Originally Posted by royaltiger (Post 35154393)

Cant believe customers are panicking over the 3rd tuner not being quite ready for distibution, so are these people constantly recording two programs at the same time all the time, I dont think so, I'm surprised you have any spare space on the hard drive if this is the case and the time to watch the recordings.

Originally Posted by Rattus (Post 35155058)

As someone else mentioned when pretty much all my recordings happen in the 9pm-10pm slot on multiple channels, mostly sky1, bbc1, 5, syfy, fx, you quite often get lots of clashes in that time slot.

Also don't forget the power of the extra tuner with respect to program overlap, that extra 5 mins at the end often needs the extra tuner, and you will lose the end off alot of programs without it.

eg you watch a program at 9pm-10pm, record a program at the same time, then record a program on a different channel at 10pm-11pm.

With 3 tuners this is no problem at all as 1 tuner records the 9-10, while the other records the 10-11 channel both with overlaps, all while you watch you're program. With just 2 tuners, you may miss the end off the 9-10pm program as the tuner switches to record the 10-11pm channel. Or as with sky you get the epg flash up giving you warnings etc which nobody wants to see on VM.

Originally Posted by Perfect Choice (Post 35155087)

Having 3 tuners is one of the great uniques of VM so they will want to restore than advantage asap on Tivo

Originally Posted by alexcopeland (Post 35155121)

I'll wait for all 3 tunes to be active until I switch. I work all funny hours so have my shows set to series link. My misses has the soaps set to record of an evening as she works during this time. 3 tunes help us a lot.

Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35155264)

The way its going with keep losing channels and new ones not on the horizen we wont need 3 tuners anyway:D

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35154920)

You would have spent months developing otherwise redundant software, on the off-chance that a cable company you'd never heard of from the other side of the world with a penchant for triple-tuner PVRs would decide to adopt your software several years down the line?

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35154920)

Don't let your boss find out ;)

Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35155264)

The way its going with keep losing channels and new ones not on the horizen we wont need 3 tuners anyway:D

Originally Posted by fixerman (Post 35155342)

Please explain! I do not understand what you mean. I am perfectly happy with the channel line up.:confused:

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle (Post 35156324)

Not if you're doing it right. You have a general routine for tuning and processing the signals regardless of whether it is for viewing or recording. Then you have a module to handle viewing and a module for recording. Each of these should be re-usable code so that you could:-

• view multiple channels on each of the outputs (SCART, HDMI, RF, component etc. as applicable)
• view one channel as a picture-in-picture of another channel or the guide (which is just another video source anyway)
• record multiple channels

Some of the recent software changes for the search functionality, for example, don't seem to follow the principle of "reduce, reuse, recycle". The remote control handling routines seem to have been re-written and are not consistent with the behaviour of the remote elsewhere. It's not like there's oodles of spare memory to waste in some of the older boxes, so it's a bad thing in more than one way.

I am the boss!!! I've been in business for myself since 1988.

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Why SpongeBob SmartyPants, you cynic! To suggest that the VM content selection is so poor that we will soon only need to view or record one channel at a time is nigh sacrilege. You go and wash your mucky mouth out with your own sponge!!! :nono:

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35156040)

No you can't rearrange the channels.