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Anyroom DVR standard pricing
Hub DVR: 19.95
Terminals: 7.95

Discounted pricing is available for Triple Play customers.

Do you know how many tuners are in the hub DVR? Do the terminals have tuners as well, or is all the tuning done in the hub DVR?

According to the specs, the DCX3400 (hub) is a two tuner DVR. The DCX3200M (terminal) is a single tuner box.

What isn't clear is if you can have two hubs in the same house.

My guess for recording, all tuning is done in the two tuners in the hub. For viewing live, each terminal box has it's own tuner.

In addition, my guess is you may be able view two recorded programs at once or record two programs at once and watch a third recorded program.

I should know more soon.

- 2 tuners in the hub do all the recording.

- 1 tuner in each of the terminals for live tv.

- Only 1 hub per Any Room system.

- You can have other DVRs but they would not be part of the Any Room DVR network.

- You can record 2 programs and watch 4 recordings, all at the same time.

I wonder if that is just a software limitation and how long it will be until it is resolved.

Doesn't really sound like a "limitation" to me. How many people do you have in your house that all have to watch something different at the same time?

It's a huge limitation to anyone with more than one DVR.

Well, maybe you want to record more than 2 shows at once which would require a 2nd dual tuner DVR. But, apparently that's not an option.

I'm hoping they allow communication to each other over Ethernet instead of MoCA...

Nope.

But how is this different than anyone elses' product? You're just limited to how many DVRs are on 'the system' - not how many DVRs you can have in the house.

DirecTV says it has the same limitation:

• Record 2 shows at once while watching 2 more from your playlist

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/conten...logy/wholehome

Sure it is. All it would take was a second system; hub, and terminals running separately.

As noted, other systems have the same or very similar limitations.

DirecTV has no such limitation. You can have as many DVRs and regular receivers as you wish, and they'll all be networked together. The only limitation is that each DVR is only able to stream to one remote location at a time.

Wow, that's pretty major overkill to have two terminals in every room just so you can have two DVRs shared in a separate room.

DirecTV does not have such a limitation. Actually, you get combined play lists when there are two or more DVRs on the system.

Comcast does have the advantage for the number of shows that can be viewed from the dvr to the terminals.

So the Comcast system can stream 4 remotes from one DVR, but DirecTV can only support one remote at a time? Yikes...sounds like a DirecTV setup is a whole heck of a lot more expensive.

(And there is a limit on DirecTV's - it says so right on that web page - limit of 15 for each DVR)

Let me rephrase my comment. All such systems have limitations, it's just a question of which better fits your needs.

The DCX3400 Anyroom DVR has a 500GB hard drive. The regular DCX3400 DVRs only have 320GB.

My-TV 20 is working again for me on my television after a few days. There must have been something wrong with the wiring or antenna to cause my tuner not to adjust correctly to the station.

Just wanted to document the networks that aired Stand Up to Cancer:
ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, HBO, HBO Latino, E!, Discovery Health, MLB Network (founding donor), Style Network, VH1, TV One, G4, and some Canadian stations, mostly in HD. If a television is watching the show on a SD channel (480i), it was presented in letter-boxed widescreen.

I believe CBS delivered the feed the fastest by a few seconds compared to others. WWJ-TV (Detroit) also shared some of its own footage.

Finally, an interesting tidbit:
Chances of getting cancer: 1 in 2 for men. 2 in 3 for women.

Have a good weekend!

At the chance of veering way off topic for a Detroit HDTV forum, I have had some epidemiology and biostatistics in my dim past so I have to mention that the number they use describes 'risk' in the population as a whole. It does not apply to any single individual. You can read way more than you ever wanted to know about this and more at the SEER site: http://seer.cancer.gov/statistics/

A Mayo Clinic article snippet sums it best:
"Risk statistics can be frustrating because they can't tell you your own specific risk of cancer. Just because studies have found that men have a nearly 50 percent chance of developing cancer in their lifetimes doesn't mean that your risk, if you're a man, is 50 percent. Your individual risk is based on many different factors, such as your habits, your family history of cancer and the environment in which you live."
From "Cancer risk: What the numbers mean"
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer/CA00053

(P.S. I'm not saying you shouldn't contribute!)

This is why I found it interesting they would state this over the networks. Statistics aren't always factual. I mean, if you put my brother and myself in a room, does that mean either I or him will get some form of cancer? :knocks on wood: I think it was stated more to just to make people think (or spark discussion like we are) and spread awareness.

I do believe in the idea that 1 in 10 people will trip or injure themselves while texting though.

Syndicated TMZ in HD seen on WJBK-DT.

That's not what statistics says. A 50% chance simply means that if you put two people in a room, it is likely that one of them will get cancer. It is certainly possible that both or neither of them will, but that doesn't mean that the statistics are wrong.

'Bout freakin' TIME. I can handle a lot of syndicated things in SD, but that was always blurry to watch in the first place, what with all the skype and YouTube stuff. This ought to clean it up a LITTLE, one would hope.

WDIV-TV's new Fall 2010 Daytime Schedule:
4:30-7: Local 4 News Morning
7-10 A: The Today Show
10:00A: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
11:00A: Today Show (4th hour)
12:00P: Local 4 News at Noon
12:30P: Jeopardy
01:00P: Days of Our Lives
02:00P: The Real Housewives
03:00P: Dr. Oz
04:00P: Local 4 News: First at 4
04:30P: Inside Edition

Italicized indicates new timeslot or syndicated show. I'm not sure exactly what will happen to Rachael Ray's show.

Also, The Martha Stewart Show that is currently syndicated on broadcast (WJBK-TV Fox) will soon air on The Hallmark Channel.

not sure if this is wide spread...but...whenever i watch a HD NBC show on Comcast (west bloomfield, 232)...nothing plays in surround, football, movies..etc....ABC, FOX,.etc are all fine and sound great..but local NBC, ZERO surround..is this a WDIV prob?

WWJ now has NUMB3RS and Criminal Minds in HD.
Did WWJ broadcast their first episode last night starting with S01E03?
I was hoping they would start with the pilot and go through each episode in order and not jump around.

I'm not sure what they aired, but WWJ has no control over what episode they air, it's determined by the syndicator.

How I Met Your Mother is airing in HD syndication 2 times per night.
Season 1 at 7pm and Season 3 at 10pm.

Anyroom DVR will launch in Canton, Northville, Plymouth, Dearborn, and Walled Lake on 9/22.