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"Manage your DVR playlist from any room"
What does this mean?
On my regular HD receiver I can pick which dvr to record to, but on my dvrs it does not appear that i can record to a different dvr.
Should I be able to be at any location and record to any location i pick?
dcd
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14 years ago
The DVR can only configure and schedule itself. Many folks hope the remote scheduling will become available eventually.
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jethrobodine
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14 years ago
Doesn't make much sense that you buy additional recording capability for your "Whole Home" system but you have to walk around your "whole home" to use it. Kind of defeats some of the purpose.
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litzdog911
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14 years ago
Doesn't make much sense that you buy additional recording capability for your "Whole Home" system but you have to walk around your "whole home" to use it. Kind of defeats some of the purpose.
Agreed.
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lugnutathome
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14 years ago
Honestly think D* is withholding this while they create their physical Whole Home DVR. The pre beta information shows a 5 tuner affair using thin remote clients instead of the current receiver landscape. Q&A has revealed it's not compatible with the current technology landscape. Hoping someone with a clue wakes up and lets us at being able to actually schedule recordings on any DVR from any other receiver.
Don "and thats the rumors behind the news" Bolton
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testerx
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14 years ago
My guess is that the software for the DVRs is simply much more challenging, possibly because of the issue of local vs remote recording commands. It may also have to do with the seemingly already overburdened processor in the DVRs.
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lugnutathome
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14 years ago
Your guess might be on track but as one of the pre beta firmware testers that's not what I'm seeing. These boxes do amazing things with firmware tweaks. The original engineering done on these seems flexible as heck. Working through the iterations (OK watching and reporting) of MRV testing through to it becoming the WHDVR service was really fascinating.
Seems they are striving instead for additional potentially revenue producing features and perhaps toward a new more flexible architecture for WHDVR. Time will tell how it all shakes out. I suspect part of the "stall" in this case is developing additional revenue stream generating functionality makes more business sense.
If I were a betting person I'd wager they intend to maintain the HR to H series landscape for simpler home topographies requiring one DVR and several HD receivers and offer the Mondo WHDVR appliance and it's "thin" client architecture to more involved installs.
Still I would *love* to have the remote scheduling from the DVRs as well as the HD receivers.
Don "I want it all and I want it now but in the end I'm but one voice" Bolton
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