MRV between Tivo HD and Tivo Premiere

[gtgrad2k]

If I buy a Tivo Premiere, will I be able to use MRV to copy shows between the Premiere and my Tivo HD? I've been wanting to buy a second Tivo for the bedroom for a while, but I wanted to make sure that the two Tivos will "talk" to each other.

[i2k]

Don't see why not, that would be a major issue if it didnt.

[gweempose]

The new boxes will still be subject to the same CCI flag restrictions, but MRV should work fine between an S3 and S4.

[jmpage2]

It has already been quoted from the TiVo manuals for the Premiere that multi-room will work between S2/S3 and the new Premiere, but you can only MRV HD programs between Premiere and S3 series boxes since S2 doesn't do HD.

[b_scott]

figured this was a no brainer, but then again never hurts to ask. i'll be keeping one HD for my bedroom.

[yunlin12]

In bkdtv's tech review it was said that MRV speed is much faster on the Premiere. However I assume that is between Premiere and Premiere? What about between a Premiere and a Tivo HD? I'm getting a Premiere to go with my Tivo HD, so doubling my tuners. Has anyone who has received their Premiere had any experience for MRV between a Premiere and a HD? Is there any speed difference in which way the MRV is going?

[jbdecker]

In bkdtv's tech review it was said that MRV speed is much faster on the Premiere. However I assume that is between Premiere and Premiere? What about between a Premiere and a Tivo HD? I'm getting a Premiere to go with my Tivo HD, so doubling my tuners. Has anyone who has received their Premiere had any experience for MRV between a Premiere and a HD? Is there any speed difference in which way the MRV is going?

No speed difference between TiVo HD & Premiere going either way. Haven't tried between my two premiere's since the 2nd one wasn't activated for MRV yet but will try tonight.

[bkdtv]

The TiVoHD is the bottleneck in transfers to and from the Premiere. I noticed a slight improvement to minimum and maximum transfer speeds.

When recording two high-bitrate HD channels like ESPNHD and ESPN2HD on the TiVoHD (i.e. worst case scenario), MRV throughput between two like boxes would often max out at 16-17Mbps. With the TiVo HD receiving from a Premiere, I see more like 19-20Mbps minimum in this scenario.

When recording two low-bitrate SD channels like TNT and TBS on the TiVoHD (i.e. best case scenario), MRV throughput would max out at around 27Mbps. When receiving from the Premiere, I've seen 29-30 Mbps in this scenario. Previously, 30Mbps MRV on my TivoHD was only possible when both tuners were set to channels I do not receive.

To summarize, it looks like there is a 2-3Mbps improvement with Premiere -> TiVo HD transfers. As a reminder, you're not likely to see any improvement at all if you are using TiVo 802.11g wireless adapters, which usually max out at 16-18Mbps (varies by router).

[jbdecker]

Just transferred a couple shows from premiere to premiere and wow, huge difference. Easily 3-4x speed. Finally....by the time you get to your first commercial while watching a transferring show you can fast forward through it.

Now if we could just stream instead of transfer....but I guess it's not much of a difference.

[Stormspace]

Just transferred a couple shows from premiere to premiere and wow, huge difference. Easily 3-4x speed. Finally....by the time you get to your first commercial while watching a transferring show you can fast forward through it.

Now if we could just stream instead of transfer....but I guess it's not much of a difference.

It is if you can't transfer any other way. :)

[b_scott]

It is if you can't transfer any other way. :)

only channels you can't transfer through Comcast are the premiums, which I don't have anyway. Oh, Encore too. I guess that's the only one that affects me.