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muppetman11 · 25-10-2016, 12:51

I was looking at the US cable cos next generation boxes the other day , it would seem Comcast use a Main DVR with hard drive and then slave type boxes with no tuner or hard drive.
The system they had in place was 6 tuners which basically provided 4 for recording one for live TV on the DVR with the further tuner reserved for live TV on the slave box although people did suggest the more slaves you had what were in use the more it impacted your available recordable tuners.

Wonder if VM will adopt similar or whether it will be like the current implementation of each box is recordable with the ability to stream recordings between the two.

25-10-2016, 12:51	#717
muppetman11 cf.mega poster Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 12,313	Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB) I was looking at the US cable cos next generation boxes the other day , it would seem Comcast use a Main DVR with hard drive and then slave type boxes with no tuner or hard drive. The system they had in place was 6 tuners which basically provided 4 for recording one for live TV on the DVR with the further tuner reserved for live TV on the slave box although people did suggest the more slaves you had what were in use the more it impacted your available recordable tuners. Wonder if VM will adopt similar or whether it will be like the current implementation of each box is recordable with the ability to stream recordings between the two.