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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Yeah, you can do more than one tuner in a PC DVR running either Windows MCE
or Beyond TV.  I think Beyond TV goes up to 4 but not sure about MCE's max. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyman Green [mailto:lymang AT gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:01 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] TW DVR to PC/DVD
> 
> So here's my question to all of you using Tivo's and alternatives to
> the TWC DVR.  Do your alternatives have more than one tuner in them
> and if so can they take advantage of that on the TWC signal?  Also to
> top it off, are any of them High Def capable?
> 
> I am currently using the TWC HD DVR (the 8300HD) and while in many
> ways it sucks, it also has some really, really nice features (PIP, 2
> tuners, and in fact I can be taping 2 things and watching another
> thing if it's something I've already recorded)
> .  If I switched to an alternative it would have to record content in
> High Def, and it would have to be able to support two tuners so I
> could get more than one thing recorded or watched at the same time.
> 
> Lyman
> 
> On 1/3/06, marcia AT nc.rr.com <marcia AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > So, in order to get the WMC, I need a new computer? 
> "Windows XP Media
> > Center Edition 2005 is only available pre-installed on 
> computers sold by PC
> > manufacturers...."
> >
> > I already have 5 computers at home! Why don't they sell the 
> OS in a box?
> >
> > Could I, or could I not, get a video cable, and connect it 
> from my TV to
> > the video capture card on the PC, and record the video that way?
> >
> >
> >
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: Tom Caswell derpimpkar AT yahoo.com
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:21:53 -0800 (PST)
> > To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [internetworkers] TW DVR to PC/DVD
> >
> >
> > I recently switched from a Tivo (series 1) to a Windows 
> Media Center.  I
> > was thinking about getting a new Tivo but the WMC beat out 
> the Tivo in most
> > categories.  I suggest getting a WMC.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: John Broome <jbroome AT gmail.com>
> > To: marcia AT nc.rr.com; Internetworkers:
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ 
> <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:07:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: [internetworkers] TW DVR to PC/DVD
> >
> >
> > On 1/3/06, marcia AT nc.rr.com <marcia AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > > Does anybody know how I can transfer, download, stream... 
> the shows
> > > recorded with my TW DVR into my PC and then to a DVD? I 
> see the DVR has a
> > > UBS port, a slot that looks like some kind of flash 
> memory, does it also
> > > have Firewire?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the TWC dvr is a black box that can't be 
> futzed with.
> > If you want to be able to pull stuff off your DVR to play somewhere
> > else, a series 2 tivo is the way to go.
> >
> >
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