2008-12-02, 06:00 PM
With the advent of QAM and OTA recording there are situations where an SD channel is available on both analog and digital tuners. It would be nice if, as an option, when you set up a recording from the EPG you could select which tuner to use.
I have a dual analog tuner and a Hauppauge 2250 digital tuner where the analog tuner and the analog side of the 2250 share the same EPG data. Some of my QAM stations are also mapped to the matching analog stations. My HD stations are mapped to seperate stations in the EPG. The order of the devices for recording is to pick my analog tuner first then the analog on the 2250 then the digital. This suits me well since most of the stations are SD and this will leave my digital tuners free most of the time for when I need to record HD material. But there are times when I want to record an SD show on the digital tuner because of the better video and audio quality. Just a simple option to reserve the tuner for a particular show would be nice.
I have a dual analog tuner and a Hauppauge 2250 digital tuner where the analog tuner and the analog side of the 2250 share the same EPG data. Some of my QAM stations are also mapped to the matching analog stations. My HD stations are mapped to seperate stations in the EPG. The order of the devices for recording is to pick my analog tuner first then the analog on the 2250 then the digital. This suits me well since most of the stations are SD and this will leave my digital tuners free most of the time for when I need to record HD material. But there are times when I want to record an SD show on the digital tuner because of the better video and audio quality. Just a simple option to reserve the tuner for a particular show would be nice.
