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Originally Posted by NIco V
The OP said " if she unplugs her TiVo from the mains, it still records!!!"
Tivo ain't different from a laptop.... the OP never talked about downloading and decoding multiple HD streams
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Tivo is different from a laptop.
Whilst they both might have a processor and a hard drive, the tivos is worked far harder.
Your laptop will spin up and read from the hard drive occasionally, in normal use everything is loaded into Ram.
The tivo is spinning the hard drive constantly to enable buffering for timeshifting.
The OP talked about recording, which guess what, requires decoding at least one stream, and seeing as the Tivo has 3 tuners that are always active, it means decoding 3 streams. So yes, the OP did talk about that, because that's what Tivo does by virtue of being on. If your Tivo is turned on it's decoding multiple streams, some of which may well be HD.