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Originally Posted by JustaBloke
You know what his answer will be, and you've already planned your answer to that. 
The main point is that Rob was incorrect, the V+ has three tuners. TiVo can do something that the V+ cannot (record 3 programmes simultaneously) but the pay-off of not being able to watch live TV whilst doing so makes the feature of little interest to most people. Cue a procession of people claiming that they 'record 3 programmes simultaneously whilst watching another recording all the time' even though they don't...   |
I never watch live TV. I occasionally watch a show with no adds, i.e. a BBC show, at the same time as it's broadcasting, but I still watch it from the recording.
The only case I can see for the third channel not being able to record is if you have two planned recordings going and you plan to watch a third channel live, and a suggestion suddenly starts recording and swaps the tuner from your live channel. But since you are watching live, you can easily stop that suggestion recording and go back to the live channel. But the cases of that happening must be very small compared to the number of times that it is very useful/essential to have 3 recording tuners. And setting recordings for ALL your viewing prevents that happening anyway.
A box with 3 recordable Tuners
can do everything a box with 2 recordable and 1 live tuners can do. A box with 2 recordable and 1 live tuner
can't do all the things a box with 3 recordable tuners can do.