[mythtvnz] OT: MySkiHDI

[Steven Ellis]

On Fri, September 25, 2009 2:51 pm, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:34:05 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:27:35 Simon Green wrote:
>>> The box actually has four tuners. The forth one is used to download
>>> EPG, On
>>> Demand movies (which use half of your 320GB harddrive) and software
>>>  updates. When the box was first shipped, only two tuners were enabled.
>>>  This was changed with a software update later on.
>>>
>>>   -- simon
>>>
>>> source:
>>> http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/gadget-reviews/600346/Review-I-My
>>> Sky-HDI-i
>>
>>Thanks Simon, that's exactly what I was looking for. I was mostly just
>>wondering if their ads were being misleading.
>>
>>hads
>
> We still do not know if they can do multirec though - if not, then you
> will still run out of tuners during the pre/post roll overlaps between
> programs.

MySkyHDi doesn't support multirec. There are numerous posts on forums
about tuner conflicts due to only two tuners available for recording, and
hence only two channels.

Steve

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