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HDTV storage needs



On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:32:42AM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have an HDHR which gets about 15 channels -- luckily, ones we
> > are very likely to watch -- and a FW connection to a STB.
> > Changing the FW card made the STB connection less flaky, but I
> > still can't manage two STBs at once.
> 
> 
> One possible solution to that would be to add a second backend server
> to record from the second STB.

Yes, but I must confess to lameness: I have not yet run an
ethernet cable down from the machine room to the den. And
there's really no room for another backend in the den.

-dsr-

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