On 10/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Meeks</b> <<a href="mailto:jmeeks@permacrete.com">jmeeks@permacrete.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi all,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> I am curious about the MythTV setup. I have an
interested client that currently has 4 direct tv / tivo HD receivers that are beginning
to fail and asked about "something different".</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">He currently has his whole house wired with ir receivers that
connect to ir blasters. He can watch any of the receivers from any of the
televisions in the house by choosing which receiver from the remote that is
programmed for that TV. (Oh, he is using a sony lcd remote).</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> He is installing a new HDTV in his media room
and would like to record HD programming as well as SD for his other TVs. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> My questions are:</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Can MythTV record as many as 4 shows one of which may be HD.?</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, given enough disk I/O bandwidth. I currently record 2 shows HD and 2 shows SD with commflagging with no problem on an old Athlon 1800 system with EIDE disks.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What about playback or recording and watching the same show?</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes. No problem, again, your major limitation revolves around high I/O on the disks
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Do I need a frontend for each TV, or could we have one big
backend with multiple tuners that could be controlled with remotes?</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Frontends. The CPU playback requirements of HD will make any kind of multi-headed single system for playback difficult. The multi-headed stuff is difficult to start with so you're just asking for trouble.
<br><br>Kevin</div></div><br>