Exactly, the Tivo HD does 2 cable cards with one coax input.
This design is ridiculous. It doesn't matter that it's not "analog" cable. It's still the same signal coming into the house. If you add an external splitter on top of that just to get 4 feeds into your HD DVR, that's a bit of overkill. Especially considering the 7.5db signal loss per drop on the splitter.
A matrix that splits the signal inside the box would be trivial. Since TiVo, Scientific Atlanta, and Motorola have been doing this.
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Exactly, the Tivo HD does 2 cable cards with one coax input.
This design is ridiculous. It doesn't matter that it's not "analog" cable. It's still the same signal coming into the house. If you add an external splitter on top of that just to get 4 feeds into your HD DVR, that's a bit of overkill. Especially considering the 7.5db signal loss per drop on the splitter.
A matrix that splits the signal inside the box would be trivial. Since TiVo, Scientific Atlanta, and Motorola have been doing this.