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2 edits | reply to eival
Re: Dish Network DVR with 6 tuners Dish does NOT have 6 tuners!
It's 2 user-controlled tuners just like fios, plus a 3rd that tunes to a single transponder that ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX are broadcast on, so it can "record" all 4 shows at once by tuning to the one transponder. Thats where the other "4" tuners come from, they're virtual tuners, connected to one physical, non-user-controlled tuner.
Also, this third tuner is only active during prime-time, recording 3 hours of programming from the 4 major networks, and storing it for 8 days, afterwhich its deleted whether you want it to be or not. | |
 ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
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kudos:6 | For most people, it probably doesn't matter that they sort of cheat.. it's effectively 6 tuners at a time when the majority of people would be using them.
Personally, I don't watch any network TV shows, so it'd just be a useless 2-tuner DVR for me. I'll stick with my TiVo elite 
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| said by Thinkdiff:For most people, it probably doesn't matter that they sort of cheat.. it's effectively 6 tuners at a time when the majority of people would be using them.
I know, but it just seems a little too close to false advertising to me, but I guess the fine print covers that. | |
| reply to matthewh16
said by matthewh16:Also, this third tuner is only active during prime-time, recording 3 hours of programming from the 4 major networks, and storing it for 8 days, afterwhich its deleted whether you want it to be or not.
What about sunday when PT is 4 hours ? | |
| reply to matthewh16
said by matthewh16:Dish does NOT have 6 tuners!
It's 2 user-controlled tuners just like fios, plus a 3rd that tunes to a single transponder that ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX are broadcast on, so it can "record" all 4 shows at once by tuning to the one transponder. Thats where the other "4" tuners come from, they're virtual tuners, connected to one physical, non-user-controlled tuner.
Also, this third tuner is only active during prime-time, recording 3 hours of programming from the 4 major networks, and storing it for 8 days, afterwhich its deleted whether you want it to be or not.
i hope the new FIOS ones dont have stupid restrictions like that, the key aspect about this, isnt "how can i watch all that content" it frees up the issues we have now where firstly we have to constantly add overrun to programs so we dont miss the final seconds/minute, when you have shows on the same night this can cause conflicts unless its all on the same channel
plus i occasionally find myself having to finagle the timeslots because of some new show i see advertised that i wanna check out but i already have another series in that same time, so now im looking at the guide to find if they're re-aired later that night, its just a pain, more freedom to record what we want when we want isnt hurting anyone | |
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