HHD space affect picture quailty?
20-08-2010, 12:21
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HHD space affect picture quailty?
Just a quick one here.
I have noticed as soon as I hit around 12 hours free on my pox, HD live feeds break up from some reason. When I delete some space the picutire is then fine?
When I try to record anything when there is around 12 hours free, it shows the recordibng, but the when I select to play it stalls for a few mintues, shows a blank screen and then shows programme finished pop up box.
Just thinking perhaps my box is faulty.
I was having the break up of signal on 4HD and FIVE HD last night.
Thanks
Liam
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21-08-2010, 15:41
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
I don't see why it would unless you had went onto DelayTV as a live feed doesn't (or shouldn't) use the hard drive.
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21-08-2010, 15:54
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
If Live Feed doesn't use the Hard Disk, where is the 90mins of Delay TV buffer stored? For a HD channel that is going to be over 6hrs worth(4x1.5hrs).
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21-08-2010, 18:11
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
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Originally Posted by nomadking
If Live Feed doesn't use the Hard Disk, where is the 90mins of Delay TV buffer stored? For a HD channel that is going to be over 6hrs worth(4x1.5hrs).
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You would only use the buffer to watch if you pause or rewind, not live tv.
---------- Post added at 18:11 ---------- Previous post was at 18:10 ----------
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
I don't see why it would unless you had went onto DelayTV as a live feed doesn't (or shouldn't) use the hard drive.
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21-08-2010, 18:26
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
The buffer is still stored on the HDD so you can access it if and when required. Though it is stored on on a separate part and is not part of your recording allowance.
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21-08-2010, 18:43
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
You would only use the buffer to watch if you pause or rewind, not live tv.
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Regardless of wether youre watching the buffer, it's always being recorded
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21-08-2010, 19:13
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
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Originally Posted by Graham M
Regardless of wether youre watching the buffer, it's always being recorded
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Yup. It sort of follows that if a pvr is capable of rewinding live TV then it's got to be storing it somewhere.
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21-08-2010, 20:18
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
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Originally Posted by Graham M
Regardless of wether youre watching the buffer, it's always being recorded
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I mean for viewing... as I was replying to the post about picture quality. You are only viewing the HDD picture if you are using a PVR feature, i.e pause, rewind of live feed etc.
The live picture is not being viewed from the HDD.
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23-08-2010, 19:21
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
I thought the live feed is stored in memory not on the HDD. So the fullness of the HDD wouldn't affect it.
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24-08-2010, 14:31
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Re: HHD space affect picture quailty?
From memory, the 90min delay is only for SD - is HD not only about 30mins?
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