I don't know about a DirecTV DVR , but my original "14 hour" Tivo is always
"on" because it's always recording one of the following three, 24/7:
1) something that I've told it to record
2) a Tivo suggestion (something it thinks I might want to watch)
3) a constant, sliding 30 minute window (which is how it allows
one to "pause" live TV)
Unless I put it in standby it's always on and the hard drive is always
spinning. As computers go it's pretty low powered; I know that the cooling
fan seldom, if ever, comes on. I just had it apart yesterday to add a
network card and I was amazed at how clean it was inside, considering that
it hasn't been opened in years. Everytime I look inside my desktop computer
there's a new shag carpet growing in there that needs to get blasted out.
I think my Tivo's CPU is somewhere between a 60-90MHz PowerPC.
--Marcus
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, PJ McGarvey wrote:
>
> Makes me wonder what kind of power my DirecTV Tivo DVR uses as well. Anyone
> know?
>
> I'll have Verizon FiOS HD TV in a couple weeks myself...
>
> The only downside to switching off a DVR when you're not watching TV is that
> any shows
> you have set to record during this time will not record. I still think it's
> ridiculous
> that a DVR in this day and age, needs to use the same amount of power to
> "wait" to record
> as it does to actually record. Unless that hard-drive is spinning even in
> "standby" mode,
> which is again ridiculous in terms of hard-drive life expectancy.
>
> -PJ
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