Multi-Room DVR question
robgettier
Enthusiast - Level 3

I have not had this service in awhile.  I got rid of it because it was buggy (for HD) and because the lack of HD recording capacity does not make it a practical solution to a multiple DVR setup.  I currently have 3 DVRs and could probably get away with 2 DVRs and 1 HD receiver and make one of the DVRs a multi room DVR (this only saves a few bucks but adds a little convenience for the DVR I do not use often).

Questions:

1.  Is HD streaming still buggy.

2.  Can you stream from the main multi-room DVR to another DVR or does it still have to be a non-DVR receiver?  I would like to stream from the other DVR and the HD receiver.

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Re: Multi-Room DVR question
jmw1950
Specialist - Level 2

I am not sure I'd call the multi-room feature buggy, but it certainly doesn't work as well as playback directly on the DVR. I found many of the commands in multi-room DVR were very slow to respond, and I was plagued by the 'runaway' problem. I found it so irritating that I finally dropped the Multi-room feature. Your mileage may vary.

At the moment only a non-DVR box can receive from an DVR, so if your are on a TV that has a Verizon DVR connected, you cannot watch material recorded on another Verizon DVR in another room. HD boxes can receive both SD and HD recorded content, SD boxes can only received SD recorded content.

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jmw1950
Specialist - Level 2

I am not sure I'd call the multi-room feature buggy, but it certainly doesn't work as well as playback directly on the DVR. I found many of the commands in multi-room DVR were very slow to respond, and I was plagued by the 'runaway' problem. I found it so irritating that I finally dropped the Multi-room feature. Your mileage may vary.

At the moment only a non-DVR box can receive from an DVR, so if your are on a TV that has a Verizon DVR connected, you cannot watch material recorded on another Verizon DVR in another room. HD boxes can receive both SD and HD recorded content, SD boxes can only received SD recorded content.

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jumpin68ny
Master - Level 2

I will chime in here and say that since the 1.7 release the multi-room functionality has improved dramatically.  My wife uses it mostly and says that you would never know you are NOT on the DVR STB.  Now keep in mind that our other receivers are SD boxes which means we can only watch SD shows.  I'm not sure the quality of watching HD shows.

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