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  • September 28, 2011 at 3:18 am in reply to: Thanks very much, this jibes #5862
    jeam

      Thanks very much, this jibes with what I’ve heard.

      I’ll look at MoCA solutions first.

      Keep up the good work!

      September 7, 2011 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Zach, Interesting that you #5482
      jeam

        Zach,

        Interesting that you mention that. I guess that in our home we haven’t drawn a clear distinction between the two ideas, because we do some of each and either way we’re relying on that cache or buffer to “make it so.”

        But it sure helps knowing that, at least, we can rewind and review something (even if we can’t record that part). Just this morning my wife had CNN on for background while doing something else, and she heard a guest say something she wanted me to hear, so she called me over and rewound to that point so that I could hear it. If we can still do that in WMC (and it sounds like we can), then that’ll go a long way toward mitigating this drawback of WMC, while enjoying all of its pluses over the cable company DVR.

        Thanks very much!

         

        September 7, 2011 at 3:02 pm in reply to: It’s good to know that we may #5478
        jeam

          It’s good to know that we may not be facing copying issues on Comcast, that’ll be a bit of a plus. We don’t do premium channels, so copying restrictions might not affect our situation.

          Out of curiosity, this program cache feature we’ve been talking about — is that something that a good programmer could develop on his own as a WMC add-on/plug-in, or is it something that would really need to be part of the standard “out of the box” WMC code?

           

          September 7, 2011 at 3:40 am in reply to: Hi, Yes, the plan is to use #5472
          jeam

            Hi,

            Yes, the plan is to use an InfiniTV 4-tuner card in a PC. The cable provider is Comcast — I guess we’ll find out soon whether they’re doing Copy Once here.

            Thanks for the information.

             

            September 6, 2011 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Thanks for the scoop. That’s #5469
            jeam

              Thanks for the scoop. That’s too bad. We’ll see if all the other (and properly working) features in WMC will more than make up for the lack of a program cache… at least in my wife’s eyes. She IS looking forward to having virtually unlimited program storage space.

              Would it be right to say that no third-party software exists to enable a program cache in WMC? How about other (non-WMC) software to watch cable through a PC — is there any that includes this feature?

              Thanks again.

               

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