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03-10-2010, 10:57 AM
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MRV between Tivo HD and Tivo Premiere
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.
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03-10-2010, 11:02 AM
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Don't see why not, that would be a major issue if it didnt.
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03-10-2010, 11:20 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Chicago, IL
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The new boxes will still be subject to the same CCI flag restrictions, but MRV should work fine between an S3 and S4.
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03-10-2010, 11:44 AM
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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.
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03-10-2010, 01:56 PM
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Location: chicago, il
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figured this was a no brainer, but then again never hurts to ask. i'll be keeping one HD for my bedroom.
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03-31-2010, 01:48 PM
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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?
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03-31-2010, 04:06 PM
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Tivomofo
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 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?
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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.
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03-31-2010, 04:19 PM
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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).
Last edited by bkdtv : 03-31-2010 at 09:22 PM.
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03-31-2010, 07:49 PM
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Tivomofo
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Chicago
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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.
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03-31-2010, 08:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
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It is if you can't transfer any other way. 
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03-31-2010, 08:50 PM
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Location: chicago, il
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Originally Posted by Stormspace
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.
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