Quad Core On Its Way !

[RiderFan]

Poor George. I kinda sorta (not really) feel sorry for the guy.

[Rich A]

Originally Posted by RiderFan

Poor George. I kinda sorta (not really) feel sorry for the guy.

[plobby]

Originally Posted by Joey Z

hey all. After a few weeks of designing the setup of our new BTV server, waiting for the parts to come, and waiting for DirecTV to install, ITS 95% DONE !

here is my 15 Tuner DirectTV totally automated system.
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Ok wow, all I have to say right now is holy shit.

Is this in a home or office? And what kind of boxes are those?

[Rich A]

Yeah, I'm guessing this is for a multi-person family .. maybe one with 4 or more kids where they each have their own viewing preferences?

I've been doing this PC-based PVR thing for a long long time. Long before SS even. And I have to say even with my 5 tuner setup, I really don't miss anything. In fact I am now starting to have a backlog of shows that believe it or not, I just don't have the time to watch. (so I use the DVD burning option to dump them to a dvd for storage) Of course NOW I have dozens and dozens of DVDs .. and STILL don't have the time to watch them.

I think some of the guys here do these huge setups as a "proof of concept" thing or just to satisfy the "geek within".

But seriously .. if this setup is just for a couple .. we are talking about some SERIOUS TV viewing time. Life is way too short to spend MOST of it in front of the boob tube. But then maybe this is an office or multiple user setup ?? And that is something I can understand.

So who is watching all this stuff in your setup anyway?

[Joey Z]

Originally Posted by plobby

Ok wow, all I have to say right now is holy shit.

Is this in a home or office? And what kind of boxes are those?

for a office - direct tv boxes.

Thanks for the comment. That was(is)the OLD design, using USB2 boxes. It was a LEARNING EXPERIENCE, and will never do it that way again. Using 12 of the boxes right now almost full time. The usb boxes are a pain. Wiring took 2 days alone. Going to be using PCI cards for The next units i have on deck, and it will be in a neater system with 5 or 6 terabytes of storage. uploading to a remote location. (making it now, picks of the new system up soon.)

all I can say is that BTV ROCKS !

[Joey Z]

also on a side note, this system has been up and running at 100% since installed and configured. I have had minor problems that were the natural growing pains with learning a new system and have worked through everything. The guys at BTV have built a solid software foundation.

I cant wait to build more systems.

[plobby]

Can you record through the direct tv or no? Im still kind of lost on the whole directv subeject on what you can and cant do recording and watching wise between HD and just standard (digital?) telivision.

[Joey Z]

All 15 inputs are using the video output from the direct tv boxes. D-11's
All 15 Direct tv boxes change channels independently to what ever channel BTV needs to record off of.
No HD signal, for the application that was needed, HD was an added expense and not needed. The signal off the D11 boxes are fine. if HD was needed it could be done.
There are about 10 BTV Link clients setup that people have access to.

I can record anything I or any of the 10 users want, and have about 3,000 hours of shows on it now.

Its not uncommon for the system to record 2 shows while serving the previous days video files to multiple users while at the same time other users are watching live to with BTV Link.

anything can be done. It depends on what you want to do, and building the system to do it the right way.

[GeorgeH]

"You should talk to George H. His company was going to pay someone big bucks just to configure something like that. Of course he'll say that you have some kind of a problem with your setup."

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(Not my company. One of my employers was willing to pay. I simply conveyed the offer.) But "Joey Z" is a little bit late.

[doctah]

So Joey...

The D11's use USB tuning right? I had mine (yes...just one ) using a USB > Serial > Null cable > computer config, but with my new system, I no longer have a serial port on my box. It looks to me you're using a single computer to control them all? Please elaborate.

[fustanella]

Originally Posted by rugby

Yeah, I do consider my wife's tv programming critical data. I really don't want to hear about her losing shows.

Copy that. She was dead set against the "toy" when we got our first TiVo, and that quickly changed after we got back from vacation and her shows were waiting.

[Joey Z]

Just an update. Still going strong after all this time. Only problem so far has been some bad usb tuner boxes. Hopefully within a year I will be able to build my 20 tuner PCI version to "upgrade" this current system.

[Darkk]

Originally Posted by Joey Z

Just an update. Still going strong after all this time. Only problem so far has been some bad usb tuner boxes. Hopefully within a year I will be able to build my 20 tuner PCI version to "upgrade" this current system.

I wonder if you consider installing Blu-Ray burner to squeeze more shows onto a single disc?

Awesome setup by the way.

Darkk

[Joey Z]

Originally Posted by Darkk

I wonder if you consider installing Blu-Ray burner to squeeze more shows onto a single disc?

Awesome setup by the way.

Darkk

No need for a Blu-Ray burner as there was another Terabyte drive added to that Red Devil, and I have an 8 Terabyte drive array on order! Very rarely does stuff get burnt on to disk.

[Nick Burns]

That's one crazy-mad-ass system.




I envy that set up.