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11/18/09 - A major update brings our collection to over 1,350 manuals for 115 brands.
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| Topic: | Directv Continuing Problem. This thread has 18 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 19. |
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| Post 16 made on Monday September 28, 2009 at 23:15 |
Satisfaction Long Time Member |
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On September 26, 2009 at 17:03, texasbrit said...
I leave my DVRs "on" all the time also. There's very little reason for turning them "off". And it means you don't have to worry about the lack of a discrete power on/off in an activity-based PCF like mine.
I have an HR20-100, an HR20-700 and an HR21-100. All driven by an RF repeater. My delay between numbers in a macro is 0.2 seconds and I have never had a problem with the macros, in three years with a TSU7000.
I turn both of my HR2X with discrete on/off with no problems, agree not much value but trying to be a "green" as possible.
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| Post 17 made on Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 12:55 |
Ernie Bornn-Gilman Elite Member |
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I think there is zero "green" value to turning off these receivers. Do the hard drives of the DVRs even spin down and stop? The classic non-green and very silly "turn-off" was with the RCA DTC-100, where the video output went from satellite stations to black. That is, it continued to output video, but it output a black screen. That's not off.
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| Post 18 made on Wednesday September 30, 2009 at 07:49 |
texasbrit Founding Member |
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The difference in power consumption between "on" and "off" is very small. As you say, the disk drives continue to spin because the DVR is maintaining the 90 minute "live" buffer. The rest of the DVR continues to operate so it can start scheduled recordings, take downloads of movies from DirecTV into the "DirecTV Cinema" part of the drive, and accept new software downloads from DirecTV. The only things that go "off" are lights and the video output. But the video does actually go off, unlike the DTC-100!
On September 29, 2009 at 12:55, Ernie Bornn-Gilman said...
I think there is zero "green" value to turning off these receivers. Do the hard drives of the DVRs even spin down and stop? The classic non-green and very silly "turn-off" was with the RCA DTC-100, where the video output went from satellite stations to black. That is, it continued to output video, but it output a black screen. That's not off.
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| Post 19 made on Wednesday October 21, 2009 at 03:03 |
Robertxyz Junior Member |
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Originally Posted by Stuart Sweet
One suggestion that's worked for me is pressing {INFO} before changing channels. This seems to improve performance when pushing channel numbers. I don't know why.
This was on dbstalk.com and it works. It seems that the entering of the channel numbers and the banner don't like the timing. Hope they can fix this, it's been like this for almost a year.
Thanks Bob H.
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