Do you need multiple tuners with a cable box if you want to record/watch multiple channels at once?
Since TiVo boxes seem to only have one cable input (based on a quick google image search, and the fact VM only give you a 2 way splitter) but supposedly can record up to 3 channels, i presumed i wouldn't need to worry about the number of tuners in a cable box. However reading a few threads on here and other places seems to indicate that i still need to have one tuner per concurrent recording (although i may have just not understood).
Can someone confirm:
1. Do i need multiple tuners for recording/watching multiple channels with a cable box (VM line specifically if that makes a diff)
2. If Yes to the above, how do i go about splitting the cable? Do i need to get another two way splitter than connects to the "set-top box" output on the VM supplied splitter? And doesn't that cause the signal level to basically half which would cause problems (another thing i dont really understand right there).
Cheers
Since TiVo boxes seem to only have one cable input (based on a quick google image search, and the fact VM only give you a 2 way splitter) but supposedly can record up to 3 channels, i presumed i wouldn't need to worry about the number of tuners in a cable box. However reading a few threads on here and other places seems to indicate that i still need to have one tuner per concurrent recording (although i may have just not understood).
Can someone confirm:
1. Do i need multiple tuners for recording/watching multiple channels with a cable box (VM line specifically if that makes a diff)
2. If Yes to the above, how do i go about splitting the cable? Do i need to get another two way splitter than connects to the "set-top box" output on the VM supplied splitter? And doesn't that cause the signal level to basically half which would cause problems (another thing i dont really understand right there).
Cheers