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Tiger Shark
Who have tivo and don't have what have?
I have looked at the new Tivo series where it allows you to records up to two channels at a sametime. Are there any other DVR does more than one channel?
My dad has the old 80 hours one, it has been rock solid up until these days.
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Any Multimedia PC with more than two tuner cards can do it.
You can use www.titantv.com for free program schedules.
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gran tiburón blanco
The HD-DVR I use from Time Warner does two channels at a time. Even off the HD channels. I believe its the 8300HD.
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The Scientific Atlanta 8300HDC is a pretty decent box except for the small hard drive.
I tried to purchase one, but they will only sell to a cable company. I wanted to use one to record OTA HD broadcasts. There are no decent HD tuner cards for a PC. I tried one and it was a waste of money.
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Hammerhead Shark
I have a scientific atlanta box through cox digital cable. It is very unreliable. I am on my 3rd one. When it works it is awesome. I can record 2 channels at the same time while watching something previously recorded. This 3rd one seems to be working, though. *knock on wood*
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Hammerhead Shark
I'm not sure how much two tuners would help me with my TIVO setup and brighthouse. Brighthouse can only tune to 1 channel at a time.
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Brighthouse in West Florida uses the 8300HDC box. You can view an HD channel while recording another. I don't know if you can record two channels concurrently, but AFAIK the 8300HDC has 2 tuners.
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gran tiburón blanco
You can record two but you have to be tuned to either one of them or a recorded program. If your not it will automatically kick you off the station your watching and switch you to one of the shows being recorded (with a few minutes warning first).
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That makes sense because recording 2 channels plus watching another requires 3 tuners.
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Tiger Shark
I have a weird question
Is it posible to hook up cameras using a DVR to records for security or surveilance purpose?
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Sure. The big IF is the kind of connections your camera have, TV and/or DVR.
For example my TV has 4 firewire ports and a VGA port plus all the usual video ports. It is easy to connect a camera to the TV to view digital stills. I don't have a video camers but they should work as well. anything that can connect to a TV should be able to connect to a DVR.
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Tiger Shark
Ok nice, but I understand you can go out and buy a media center card to build your own DVR. Do you think, it can be build with 2-4 media center cards in the same computer? or only one card will work due to conflict?
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You can put several tuner cards into a PC. However, for HDTV I have yet to find a decent tuner card. Every one I've tried has poorer output than the HD tuner built into my TV.
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Mako Shark
The Directv DVR can record 2 channels at ones. Unfortunately it's very glitchy right now and if I wasn't locked into a stupid 2 year contract I'd give them the middle finger and also give up my covetted NFL Sunday Ticket.
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