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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
glucoseboy @ Oct 15th 2008 2:32PM
One thing re: transfer times with Tivos. On my Tivo HD, they're slow when the Tivo is "occupied" recording or other activity. Otherwise, it's much faster. Was this fact taken into account during the tests?
jd @ Oct 15th 2008 4:28PM
Yeah, but, a TiVo is *always* recording -- because of the live buffer, data is constantly being written to the hard drive, whether it is a recording that will be saved indefinitely, or only the last 30 minutes of live TV. So when exactly do you see good performance on TiVoToGo transfers?
Dave @ Oct 16th 2008 11:22AM
Tivo ISN'T recording all the time if you set the tuners to channels you don't get. I've seen this myself (and read about it elsewhere), that is, if you want to speed up the Tivo2Go transfers, set both tuners to channels you don't get. That turns off the live buffering which speeds up the transfers. I tried this a long time ago on my HD Tivo, and as I remember, there was a significant difference (even though I think it should be much better). For example, I have 2 cable cards installed, but I don't get a number of channels because of the SDV problem. I set the tuners to some SDV channels I can't receive, and voila.
The original point remains: did they do this in their evaluation?