Thread: TiVo Sky Q and VM answer ?
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Old 04-01-2016, 19:15   #15
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
Agreed which is great if your looking at the box as a single DVR however those tuners soon get taken away if feeding minis or tablets with live TV.

Don't forget SkyQ Silver allows 4 shows to be recorded whilst watching a 5th and the ability to feed 2 minis or tablets.

I think the tuners are used as follows

4 for recording
1 for live TV viewing on main box
2 for 2 Sky Q Mini boxes
2 for 2 tablets
With the rest used for future expansion

SkyQ Silver needs a larger HDD than a 2TB especially when UHD arrives considering it will record the whole homes shows , many Multiroom subscribers now have 1 2TB and the standard Sky+HD giving them greater capacity.
But we don't know what the new Tivo box will be like. I would be surprised if it was just a Roamio with bigger drives and more tuners. The Roamio was a top of the range PVR two and a half years ago, and the new box is classed as an enthusiasts box. I know your loyalty to Sky wants the new Q box to be the best; it is impressive and it may well be so. But I fail to see how you can be sure of that until the new US Tivo is revealed. That's when I will make a judgement.

And of course, it's not certain that VM will actually release a new box this year, and if they do, which Tivo software will they base it on and what hardware they will use?
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