** Reply to message from DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:51:11 -0700
> I've been told by a friend whose neighbor has U-verse that it is only > one channel at a time per TV set. No TIVOing a second channel while > watching the first. Does anyone know if this is true? That is how it is designed. I believe you get 3 tuners in the server box for your home and that means 3 video streams. It would not surprise me if they do not direct more than one stream to a set-top-box and instead use these streams for driving unique TV sets. If they underpowered( remember, it's Windows ) the settop box then they can't have a process recording on another stream while playing the other. But with enough hardware, it shouldn't be impossible to do since it is just an IP network with a bunch of Microsoft protocol hacks on it. They were a couple of years late with the release and a couple of billion over budget on the project so it is no wonder there are minimal features.Also remember, the neighborhood server boxes were blowing up and I mean physically blowing up. Many have speculated that it was heat related but not outside air over heating, inside the box over heating since the last two which blew did so in late Nov and Dec of last year. The battery packs were what failed explosively and MaBell2 is spending more millions swapping out the battery systems across the country. One more thing I've picked up but have not searched to see if it is true is from cable system commercials. It appears that U-Verse only allows one HD channel out of the three video streams. So if you have more than one HD TV, only one TV at a time can watch an HD channel. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
