My SkyHDi - now record two programmes and watch a third one live!

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paul151

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#26612 27-Sep-2008 22:01

Topic header says it all.. has anyone else discovered this feature has now been enabled?

I can record two channels and watch a third one live which is a nice step up from the My Sky unit in the other room..

Not too many crashes lately but the stutter and delay on rewind / fast forward remains and is very annoying.

Cheers, Paul.

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#167541 27-Sep-2008 22:22

Would be nicer if you could record three channels at once while watching something previously recorded. :)

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paul151

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#167556 28-Sep-2008 10:51

ZollyMonsta: Would be nicer if you could record three channels at once while watching something previously recorded. :)

I may be able to... can't see why not, will try and let you know..

paul151

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#167602 28-Sep-2008 19:50

ZollyMonsta: Would be nicer if you could record three channels at once while watching something previously recorded. :)

No it turns out you can't which seems strange, but I certainly can now record two while watching a 3rd live which is a step up from the first My Sky unit.

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#167604 28-Sep-2008 19:54

The firmware upgrade was deployed OTA around a week or ten days ago.

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#167694 29-Sep-2008 11:02

sbiddle: The firmware upgrade was deployed OTA around a week or ten days ago.

How can you enable a third tuner by firmware?
Unless 2 of the channels need to be on the same mux

Hmmmm

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#167741 29-Sep-2008 13:23

As i understood it, there were always three tuners in there...

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#167746 29-Sep-2008 13:38

The box has 4 tuners but only 2 were activated when the box was originally rolled out. A firmware upgrade enabled the other 2, 1 of which you can use for viewing/recording TV and the 4th which is reserved exclusively for downloading PPV movies.

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#167957 30-Sep-2008 11:36

I thought the 4th was for the EPG

Hmmmm

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#167969 30-Sep-2008 12:30

The EPG is transmitted within sub streams across all muxs, so will be visible to whatever mux any tuner is on. As steve says the 4th tuner is for on-demand PPV.

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