On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 05:17 -0700, David Lang wrote:
for example a series 1 DirectTv tivo manages to write two program
streams to disk while reading and viewing a third

Actually it writes two streams to disk while reading and viewing one of
them, unless they released a model with three tuners...

it can be recording two shows (one per tuner) while playing a completely different show. you don't have to be watching one of the two that are being recorded.

David Lang

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