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<blockquote data-quote="elsmandino" data-source="post: 798925" data-attributes="member: 111675">I know what you mean about keeping the system stable - my other half wants us to back to using MCE.&nbsp; She cannot deal with the occassional crashes and used to love the Red Button.I think we also need to reach some compromise - I shall learn what or who a Jimmy Choo and a Max Factor is if she will let me explain the benefits of Mediaportal over Media Centre and why, although a little buggy, it offers so much more.&nbsp; The battle goes on!In terms of the time shift function, am I right in thinking that the number of tuners is more important than the number of clients?I note that you currently have a dual satellite card.&nbsp; Assuming that you do not have any DVB-T(2) card - say you have assigned 2GB on your SDD for each of the tuners and your girlfriend and you are both watching live TV on two separate clients on different channels.&nbsp; Then, if you leave the client that you are watching running on live TV and use a third client to watch a third channel that happens to be on the same multiplex as one of the tuners&nbsp; you are already using, what happens then?I cannot get my head around how the 2GB of time shifting is dealt with for a single tuner.&nbsp; My first thought was that itautomatically halves the time shifting allowed for each person on the same tuner to 1GB of time shifting each.&nbsp; However, I am pretty sure that this would not happen (if it did, you could then designate memory to be used by all available tuners and they would carve it up between themselves as they were used).What I currently think is that as digital TV deals with multiplexes - i.e. all the channels on a single mutliplex are received, but the decoder just filters out the one you want to watch, would the second client to share a tuner then just start picking up the time shift that had already been started by the first client?Sorry if this is getting really complex - I tend to overanalyse these things!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elsmandino, post: 798925, member: 111675"] I know what you mean about keeping the system stable - my other half wants us to back to using MCE. She cannot deal with the occassional crashes and used to love the Red Button. I think we also need to reach some compromise - I shall learn what or who a Jimmy Choo and a Max Factor is if she will let me explain the benefits of Mediaportal over Media Centre and why, although a little buggy, it offers so much more. The battle goes on! In terms of the time shift function, am I right in thinking that the number of tuners is more important than the number of clients? I note that you currently have a dual satellite card. Assuming that you do not have any DVB-T(2) card - say you have assigned 2GB on your SDD for each of the tuners and your girlfriend and you are both watching live TV on two separate clients on different channels. Then, if you leave the client that you are watching running on live TV and use a third client to watch a third channel that happens to be on the same multiplex as one of the tuners you are already using, what happens then? I cannot get my head around how the 2GB of time shifting is dealt with for a single tuner. My first thought was that it automatically halves the time shifting allowed for each person on the same tuner to 1GB of time shifting each. However, I am pretty sure that this would not happen (if it did, you could then designate memory to be used by all available tuners and they would carve it up between themselves as they were used). What I currently think is that as digital TV deals with multiplexes - i.e. all the channels on a single mutliplex are received, but the decoder just filters out the one you want to watch, would the second client to share a tuner then just start picking up the time shift that had already been started by the first client? Sorry if this is getting really complex - I tend to overanalyse these things! [/QUOTE]

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