Recorded on one-play on another

[WilsonFlyer]

Pretty sure someone has already asked this but I'm going to because I cannot find reference to it.

I have a feature on my 4 ReplayTVs whereby I can watch a show recorded on one Replay and view it on a different one. Poor wording but I'm sure you get the gist here. Is this a feature planned for the network implementation now that it networking is functional (on the same subnet and account, of course)?

I have two and am in the process of adding a third and I know this is a feature, to be honest with you, that I would expect. I sure hope there are plans to have this.

Anybody know any inside scoop?

Thanks.

[WilsonFlyer]

Sorry for originally posting in the CE forum. I would have assumed that would be where this should be discussed since it is a feature not available yet.

My apologies.

[DonCorleone]

If I'm understanding your question correctly, you want to record on the DVR and watch somewhere else? If that's the case, other than sending your output cables to another TV, you'd have to wait for the Home Media Center (HMC) which would be a central DVR watchable on any TV in the house.

[klramp]

Currently the HR20s do not allow multi-room viewing and am not sure they will in the future. It would be nice, but I believe many here would like them to fix the problems that some are having first. Then I believe there are other projects like VOD that they would work on since DirecTV could make some money off of this.

The ReplayTV's are nice, I don't believe we will ever see as versitle a DVR (MVR, download to computer, view on computer, share over internet, commercial skip) as that again.

[WilsonFlyer]

Wow. I have to say I'm kinda shocked at the response here. I've come to expect this as a feature with DVRs since I've had it so long.

I expected people to be unfamiliar with the feature (since only ReplayTV had it and they're been gone so long as a STB solution) but really thought more would embrace the idea once they thought about it. Guess I was wrong. It's a shame. It's one of the greatest features of ReplayTV IMHO.

Maybe over time it will happen. While I certainly agree that the major problems need working out first, this is certainly a feature that I think a lot of people would enjoy and appreciate were it implemented in the future.

-bob

[WilsonFlyer]

If I'm understanding your question correctly, you want to record on the DVR and watch somewhere else? If that's the case, other than sending your output cables to another TV, you'd have to wait for the Home Media Center (HMC) which would be a central DVR watchable on any TV in the house.

When I pull up the equivalent of the "Now Playing" list on my ReplayTVs, I have an option at the top to change to another Replay on my subnet. If I pick another, I can see what's playing on them and can scroll through the list and press "Play" to have it play on this DVR and output to this display device (I can also delete and do several other housekeeping-type fcns).

Not exactly the way you understood what I was trying to explain so I just wanted to clarify. Hope the feature makes better sense now. I falsely assumed that people would be familiar with the process but I guess I was being tunnel-visioned and forgetting that if you've never had or seen a ReplayTV, you've never seen how it works.

[Kapeman]

Wow. I have to say I'm kinda shocked at the response here. I've come to expect this as a feature with DVRs since I've had it so long.

I expected people to be unfamiliar with the feature (since only ReplayTV had it and they're been gone so long as a STB solution) but really thought more would embrace the idea once they thought about it. Guess I was wrong. It's a shame. It's one of the greatest features of ReplayTV IMHO.

Maybe over time it will happen. While I certainly agree that the major problems need working out first, this is certainly a feature that I think a lot of people would enjoy and appreciate were it implemented in the future.

-bob

Actually, there are a LOT of people that want MRV. Just do a search for MRV and HMC and you'll see.

Also, I think some of the E* DVRs do some sort of MRV (over coax even), but I am not 100% sure about the specifics.

The TiVos can do it too.

To me it would be the "killer app" for a DVR.

[MikeW]

I wouldn't really consider the E* as MRV. Their process allows two programs to be distributed from one box. Replay and Tivo stream the video from one box to another. I think a major reason why this won't happen with the HR20 is bandwidth. Most home networks would not be capable of streaming HD content from one box to another.

[macEarl]

I wouldn't really consider the E* as MRV. Their process allows two programs to be distributed from one box. Replay and Tivo stream the video from one box to another. I think a major reason why this won't happen with the HR20 is bandwidth. Most home networks would not be capable of streaming HD content from one box to another.

I wonder what the networking speed capabilities of the HR20 are? 10/100? 10/100/1000?

[Kapeman]

I wouldn't really consider the E* as MRV. Their process allows two programs to be distributed from one box. Replay and Tivo stream the video from one box to another. I think a major reason why this won't happen with the HR20 is bandwidth. Most home networks would not be capable of streaming HD content from one box to another.


Point taken, but the functionality is similar.