[vdr] Re: What about an passive mode of VDR?

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> 
> > - The more severe reason is that if I look for example 6 hours
> >   TV per day, but the driver is loaded always the lifetime of
> >   the LNB and the DVB card would be decreased to 1/4.
> Are you sure that the DVBs card lives longer if you unload 
> the drivers ?
> Maybe if you power off your PC, but as this is still running 
> the card is 
> powered up - driver loaded or not !??
> 
> Or am i wrong ?
> 
> Martin
> 
I don't know for sure, but if the driver is unloaded, the power to lnb
is (AFAIK) turned off and also the ARM isn't working, is it? So i think
it will prolong the lifetime !?

Cu Ulrich