This is a very popular feature in the Sky+ & SkyHD PVR's from Sky here in the UK as it enables them to offer the ability to rewind 'Live TV' in an ad-hoc way (at least to the point where you switched over to the currently viewed channel) I agree it must put extra wear & stress on the hard drive and yes the energy usage must be higher.
Andrew
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM, VDR User user.vdr@gmail.com wrote:
I really hope Klaus never intends to implement something like the live tv buffer that myth has. The idea of one of my harddrives saving nonstop 24/7 is really really lame. Huge waste of power, constant heat, and unnecessary wear on the harddrive for something that probably doesn't even get used that much in the first place.