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gillyallan
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Ok, picture there was an hour show and I am 15 mins into the next programme. I can, through the buffer rewind up to an hour and catch most of that previous programme.
This is fine, but I had hoped somehow if I rewound it enough I could force it into keeping (recording) what I had of the previous programme but when I did this it only recorded from the start of the current programme,if you see what I mean.
I know under MOST circumstances this is exactly what you'd want it to do..ie. record the current programme from the start, but was there some way I could have forced the complete buffer to store ???
sorry if this is confusing.
This is fine, but I had hoped somehow if I rewound it enough I could force it into keeping (recording) what I had of the previous programme but when I did this it only recorded from the start of the current programme,if you see what I mean.
I know under MOST circumstances this is exactly what you'd want it to do..ie. record the current programme from the start, but was there some way I could have forced the complete buffer to store ???
sorry if this is confusing.
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Its not that good.
Maybe the programme to wanted to record is repeated or on Catch-Up?
..but I don't think that menu even exists on the VM Tivo.
It's really not hard to find. If you've managed to find My Shows, then Manual Recording is in the same menu a few options below it.
I can't believe the mighty Carl didn't know that
I think the initial post was referring to recording the buffer, whilst it is easy to rewind before the bookmark it's a little harder to record the whole buffer. I don't think "mighty" Carl has any trouble rewinding!
Recording it is another matter, mikerr and brangdon came up with the solution.
Look in the "upcoming recordings" section.
Actually, I think I'm mistake. I think it did mention the programmes. What I'm wondering though. When these were set up (weeks back) as series links, it was fine with it,but now it feels the need to pop asking me if its ok to change a tuner.
I'm probably not explaining this too well.
Its telling me say it wants to change a tuner to record "lost girl" but doesnt tell me if this means something else is suffering, and what that something is. I said yes, guess I might find the end of something missing now.
I think it only gives that message when it wants to record three things at once; and asks it just in case you want to keep the live buffer for some reason.
ahh yes, this is it. It was definitly off to record 3 things.
So thats generally why then. Its in case I want whatever that particular tuner had already in its buffer (equivalent of say V+s live tuner)
Guess I can manipulate that then if that the reason. Its doubtful I'd want to keep it but least I know its there then....ta
Try it if you don't believe me.
Post #3 was a clue. However, I've now remembered you never watch live TV, so there's no reason for you to know this. Apologies.
Interesting, be cool if it works, so will try this.,..,ta
If it asks you that while you're watching live tv, that's fine
- as it's asking if you 'd mind losing the end of the current programme you're watching live, or cancel the new recording
If it asks you that while you're watching an old recording(*) I'd say that's a bug.
(*)i.e. a show that has already been recorded in its entirety - not one that's still recording.
You can scroll the list and instantly play any programme (without Rewinding 1980's VCR style - yawn)
You can Store/record any programme in it by clicking Red
Pa Daaaaaaaaa
Come on Tivo - keep up - 'Ground-Breaking'??
It does!
Have you not got one???
Alllllllllllllllllll PVRs record whole programme (if it's in the buffer) when you press record
Thats bog standard PVR thang dont ya know??
Only PVR I have ever come across that doesn't is V+ - which was crap design - trouble was most people that used V+ never had a 'proper PVR' before so they dont know any better & never complained and it never go fixed
And for the record - it doesn't 'place a bookmark' anywhere - the final recording just plays from the beginning like any other recording
nope - only 1 hour buffer max with Tivo - and that's only if the beginning (or whatever of the match) is already in the buffer
with 100's channels and only 3 tuners its prolly unlikely
mainly used when say, you've been watching a film/game and 40 minutes in you decide to record it - it will store it from the start
with my Philips 6 hour buffer I used to come home from work and sometimes watch a movie that was on at lunch
Also, I assume it was just the one channel it could buffer. You do you know that Tivo does three, don't you?
The point being... six of one..., swings and roundabouts,
Although officially it is supposed to be an hour, I've personally had a buffer of around 90-100on the BBC News Channel.
It would be nice if the size of the buffers was selectable. I'd probably set it to 2 hours rather than 1, but I doubt I'd want 6 hours. With three buffers that's over 15% of my disk space. Most programmes are 1 hour or less, so the 1 hour buffer works pretty well.
(There are a lot of things about TiVo that I'd like to be more configurable.)
I think it asks if you are watching an old recording, but only if you've watched Live TV in the last hour, on the tuner it wants to use. So it doesn't always happen, but does happen sometimes. And it perhaps happens more than it would if it didn't revert to Live TV if left idle in the menus for over 10 minutes. And more than it would if it was smart enough to find a different tuner instead of insisting on using the one it thought you looked at.
The idea is to preserve the buffer. Sometimes I watch Live TV, then watch a recording, then go back to Live TV so I do benefit from this feature, so I wouldn't call it a bug. Although it could be improved, as noted above.