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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by jlokier on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:21PM (#24053533)
Recording doesn't use a full decoder.

The incoming channel data stream is saved as-is. It will need a demultiplexer to separate out one channel from the multi-channel data stream, but it won't need to decode that stream, which is the intensive bit. Decoding happens when you play it back later.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by magicalhippo on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:10PM (#24056606)
Ah, I did check out the specs again and it does indeed say it has a bunch of tuners, not decoders.

Mental slip then. Thanks for the correction, very interesting.

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