After watching the Dish demo video, I changed my mind as to how PTA was working. I was under the assumption that it was just dumping the LiL transponder to disk. But, if you notice in the guide display where he showed the PT logos, FOX stopped recording while the other ones did not (since FOX does not have the last hour of prime time).
I think right now it is actually recording every show individually. I think it has the capacity to record 6 satellite streams at once, but of course only 3 tuners, so all the Prime Time ones have to be on the same TP. Of course if they eventually add a couple OTA tuners they could be doing 8 steams at once recording. Quite the accomplishment for the chipset.
It also makes me wonder if they start each show early and end late? It appears that they could really support 1 min early 3 min late. Or if they do it like now where they just switch, so shows that run a bit late are actually finished on the next one?
Also the demo where they moved the file from one side to the other was interesting (from Dish area to user area). It appeared to happen instantely. It was like they were on the same disk partition. I have not tried removing the 922 disk and looking at it under linux, is it one partition or two? I was under the impression that there were two partitions, now it appears that it could be the same one with just so much space allowed to be used by the user. It could explain that >100% full issue that they had with the 922.
I think right now it is actually recording every show individually. I think it has the capacity to record 6 satellite streams at once, but of course only 3 tuners, so all the Prime Time ones have to be on the same TP. Of course if they eventually add a couple OTA tuners they could be doing 8 steams at once recording. Quite the accomplishment for the chipset.
It also makes me wonder if they start each show early and end late? It appears that they could really support 1 min early 3 min late. Or if they do it like now where they just switch, so shows that run a bit late are actually finished on the next one?
Also the demo where they moved the file from one side to the other was interesting (from Dish area to user area). It appeared to happen instantely. It was like they were on the same disk partition. I have not tried removing the 922 disk and looking at it under linux, is it one partition or two? I was under the impression that there were two partitions, now it appears that it could be the same one with just so much space allowed to be used by the user. It could explain that >100% full issue that they had with the 922.
