I think with the OTA there are 3 tuners inside. Usually though you can only "use" 2 at once. Maybe he had a "malfunction". Once he began to "play" his recordings the reciever fixed it selfSPACEMAKER said:3 tuner DVR's would be nice.
I think you hit it being the buffer. That being said, it seems there must be a way to record two shows while watching a third live if the buffer is a separate area in memory.jdspencer said:Your unit was tuned to an OTA channel at the time that the two sat channels started to record. Thus the buffer has the OTA show which is what you were watching. Thus, when you selected to play a recording it flushed the buffer. At least that what I think has happened.
DirecTV has chosen to limit the capacity of their DVRs to 2 recording tuners at a time. Even if there are 2 sat tuners, and 2 ota tuners, you can only record 2 things at a time.sbelmont said:I think you hit it being the buffer. That being said, it seems there must be a way to record two shows while watching a third live if the buffer is a separate area in memory.
Correct. There are 4 tuners, 2 OTA and 2 DVB. They are all 4 active (IOW, receiving RF and demodulating it to a baseband data stream) at one time, but they are funneled into a router just before the demux process, which has only 2 outputs (4 in, 2 out--pick any 2).CJTE said:DirecTV has chosen to limit the capacity of their DVRs to 2 recording tuners at a time. Even if there are 2 sat tuners, and 2 ota tuners, you can only record 2 things at a time.
I don't think DirecTV ported anything over from the DirecTivos. It was my understanding that all the code on the directivos was owned by tivo and not DirecTV.jdspencer said:This situation has been reported with DirecTV TiVos in the past. It was caused by watching the buffer behind real time.
The reason, IMHO, that DirecTV chose to only allow the recording of two tuners at a time is that the tuner controlling code was ported over from the DirecTV TiVo. When the HR10 was produced with its dual OTA tuners they just recoded enough so that the code would use a sat and OTA tuner as a pair. And this was just ported to the HR2x.
That's correct; the code in the DVR Plus line is not related in any way to TiVo code. What JDSpencer was pointing out though is that the behavior of the buffers is similar to what was reported on TiVo receivers, thus explaining how the OP's situation occurred.evan_s said:I don't think DirecTV ported anything over from the DirecTivos. It was my understanding that all the code on the directivos was owned by tivo and not DirecTV.
