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Re: Zazaaen Ip tv? Sorry. It's set to 2. So two recordings and what ever your playing. If your not viewing any channel it can do three. It also depends on the type of storage device. Don't try to use a USB stick or SD card for 2 simultaneous recordings.
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said by Acanac Inc:Sorry. It's set to 2. So two recordings and what ever your playing. If your not viewing any channel it can do three. It also depends on the type of storage device. Don't try to use a USB stick or SD card for 2 simultaneous recordings.
WI-FI also affects the count.
Thanks thats helpful information to have, and your not using a centralized PVR scheme like the incumbents each Box has 2 tuners availible Plus 1 to watch so a total of 3 tuners? all hd?, provided you have the bandwidth to accomplish said feat?
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| Well Its the easiest way to Define it scorpido, Like on Fibe tv u get 4 tuners 3 hd 1 sd, its also IP tv, and over the same damned dsl connection they just have 2 sessions one ppoe one DHCP to pretend its Different travels thru the same last mile last i checked p:) and only 1 profile is set for the line thus same internet.
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
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Call them what you will; decoders, tuners, either way you can only handle as many streams as you have physical decoders. No STB does decoding in software (I'm sure there are exceptions).
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Hi Acanac Inc
Do you offer the Zazeen TV service on the cable internet on Cogeco area?
Or, do you offer cable internet in Cogeco area?
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said by Guspaz:Call them what you will; decoders, tuners, either way you can only handle as many streams as you have physical decoders. No STB does decoding in software (I'm sure there are exceptions). You're thinking about this the wrong way.
It only needs to be able to "decode" one stream, as one can assume this is the maximum number of video sources that the box is able to output. If it has the ability to display different things on different outputs, you would need one decoder for each independent video source as it is sent to a different output, though I doubt that is likely considering the type of hardware we're talking about.
As for "streams" it would be wholly correct to say that you would be limited by the speed of your Internet connection and nothing else. The information being received by the box would be saved to the hard drive in native compressed format, and only decompressed and decoded upon viewing. As a result, decompressing and decoding what is being received by the box and saved to the hard drive is a non-issue as far as box hardware and instead has everything to do with your net connection (or the Ethernet controller in the box, but I digress...)
The whole idea of "tuners" or to think of decoders like tuners in this case is meaningless, because there's no physical channel RF to tune into like there is with a cable DCT and satellite boxes. Cable and satellite PVRs save data directly to the hard drive in the native compressed format, so in those cases you only need one decoder, but you also need as many tuners for each individual stream you're saving. |
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said by Acanac Inc:Sorry. It's set to 2. So two recordings and what ever your playing. If your not viewing any channel it can do three. It also depends on the type of storage device. Don't try to use a USB stick or SD card for 2 simultaneous recordings.
WI-FI also affects the count.
Why? Is it only USB2?
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| From a purely technical level, the only limit would be how quickly you can get the data in and how quickly you can save it to a storage device. A USB 2.0 hard drive is still going to be faster than the vast majority (if all) Internet connections in Canada as they top out at about 300-400Mbit/s of usable bandwidth after overhead. We don't have Google Fibre, after all.
Limiting to three separate streams has more to do with what they realistically believe is sufficient bandwidth for a home Internet connection to maintain decent quality plus provide enough free bandwidth for Internet usage. |
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