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Originally Posted by DaBoz
Question on the 3 tuners buffering (when 3rd enabled). On V+, the "active" tuner, i.e. the one I'm watching, buffers as you change channels, so flip a channel and it starts recording from the moment the channel is flipped. Then you can re-wind, pause and skip forward up to live. So, is that "buffering"?
If so, what does buffering on all 3 tuners actually mean? If something is being recorded, then presumably the tuner flips channel just before the program starts and records until approx the end of the program. No buffering there.
So what is 3 tuner buffering? Do the non-active tuners (perhaps all 3 if the box is "off" and nothing is being watched) arbitrarily decide to buffer different channels? Do they only buffer channels that are due to have something recorded soon?
It all seems a bit odd.
Boz
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On V+ one tuner will generally always switch channel with you.
On Tivo the tuners stick on channels, and the one used least recently switches.
So if you watch say BBC 1, Sky sports 1, Discovery then Sky 1 it'll work something like this:
Tuner 1: BBC 1
Tuner 2: Sky Sports 1
Tuner 3: Discovery
Tuner 1: Sky 1
At which point if you switch back to Sky Sports 1 or discovery it'd just switch to the tuner already on the channel, so you can access the buffers for them.
(Obviously until the 3rd tuner is activated it'll just do that with 2 tuners rather than 3)