 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | Nice! I like the whole house idea. My wife has mentioned a few times she would like to have a feature like this. Too bad I can't get U-verse in my area. |
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| Both Moto and SA systems support multi-room DVR. Has been around for a few years. I don't know if it was poor marketing or what, but the take off has been very limited. Ask your cable provider if they offer it. |
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| said by magnushsi:Both Moto and SA systems support multi-room DVR. Has been around for a few years. I don't know if it was poor marketing or what, but the take off has been very limited. Ask your cable provider if they offer it. I don't know of *any* cable provider that offers multi-room DVR... do you? |
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ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | reply to magnushsi
We went from cable to DirectTV, ditched cable. The nice thing with DTV is being able to log into the account online and schedule the DVR from there, picking your receiver. |
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| said by ptrowski:We went from cable to DirectTV, ditched cable. The nice thing with DTV is being able to log into the account online and schedule the DVR from there, picking your receiver. Actually U-verse has this feature also.
Personally, I've stuck with Time Warner Cable (despite misgivings) for TV service. I use a SlingBox to do my DVR scheduling over the Internet. It's nicer in many ways than a Web-based service, because you see exactly the same screen and remote control as you would at home, and can access all the features (including reviewing and deleting recorded programs). Plus, you can watch the damn show on your PC, not just schedule its recording. |
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 PoloDudePremium,VIP
join:2006-03-29
Northport, NY
kudos:2 | How can it record 4 shows at once? do they mean 2 shows at a time on two different dvrs? I am sure they don't mean 4 shows at once on one dvr (quad tuner?) If so this still is not that great. Other systems alreay have the multiroom dvr and you can record 2 shoes at a time on each one. Have 7 dvrs? record 14 shows at the same time.
I guess thats what happens when you stick with copper to the house.
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| said by PoloDude:How can it record 4 shows at once? do they mean 2 shows at a time on two different dvrs? I am sure they don't mean 4 shows at once on one dvr (quad tuner?) Yes they do mean exactly that. And there are no tuners at all, it's an IP stream, not RF.
If so this still is not that great. Other systems alreay have the multiroom dvr and you can record 2 shoes at a time on each one. Have 7 dvrs? record 14 shows at the same time.
I think you're missing the basic concept of "multiroom DVR". It means a single DVR that you can access from a different STB connected to a different TV. It does not mean "multiple DVRs".
I guess thats what happens when you stick with copper to the house.
That's got nothing to do with it, you're just buying into the "AT&T is stupid for not running fiber to every house for free" narrative. |
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quirt
join:2003-09-23
North Richland Hills, TX | reply to PoloDude
said by PoloDude:How can it record 4 shows at once? do they mean 2 shows at a time on two different dvrs? I am sure they don't mean 4 shows at once on one dvr (quad tuner?) It does record 4 shows at once. This is not satellite which needs physical tuners to get the job done. |
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| reply to MyDogHsFleas
I know Time Warner, Charter and Comcast have all deployed multi-room DVR in some markets. |
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| said by magnushsi:I know Time Warner, Charter and Comcast have all deployed multi-room DVR in some markets. Which ones? I'm curious. |
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| reply to MyDogHsFleas
1 SVideo Modulator (»www.solidsignal.com/prod_display···d=SVM-24)
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1 RFtoUHF Remote Converter (»www.nextgenerationhomeproducts.com/)
= Win for SD.
We've used it for years. Pause a SD show in one room, finish watching it in another. |
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| Good solution but it's different from Whole Home DVR.
With your solution, you have one video output on the DVR driving two TVs. Both TVs have to watch the same stream. If that's OK with you all well and good.
What WHDVR does, however, is allow you to access the DVR's recorded shows from a remote TV completely independent of what the DVR is doing at the local TV (watching a live stream or playing back a different recorded stream). Both TVs can be in use at once, doing different things. |
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1 edit | Yea we have 3 watchers in the house. Two dual tuner DVRs and a DVD player on the Modulator (one of the dual tuner DVR outputs is tied to the set big TV). These are then pumped out to the house coax in a structured wiring closet.
We take the OTA from outside and splice the modulation on top of it so every tv in the house has access to OTA + the four video feeds from the DVR and DVD player.
We only pay for two DVRs that then feed the whole house.
It seems based on your explination that it's a better solution (one we've been waiting on trust me) but you'd have to still have a box on each tv in the house plus the networked DVR. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to magnushsi
said by magnushsi:I know Time Warner, Charter and Comcast have all deployed multi-room DVR in some markets. areas where fios is i bet 
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