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Old 15-05-2011, 16:24
Wjimbo
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Bought a FoxsatHDR, last week installed and running, but it confused me with its reaction to scheduled recordings. Friday set to record from CBS Drama, came out of standby quarter of an hour before recording due to start, (display lit up). Recorded on time, and was complete recording, dropped back into standby. Today scheduled to record Moto GP. Started to record bang on start time without the quarter of an hour warm up. Don’t think I changed any settings between, but at some time I have changed start from two min padding to auto.
Any thoughts, Is this normal,should it warm up before?
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Old 15-05-2011, 16:28
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If you have the recording parameters set to accurate record (auto), the box wakes up 15 mins before the scheduled time to watch for the start of programme flag in case the programme starts early or late - it's not actually "warming up" as such. It then starts recording just as the programme starts, providing the broadcaster has set the flag correctly - usually this is the case.
If you, however, add padding to the start time, then the box starts at the scheduled time minus any padding you have set - without watching for the start flag. This is manual recording, just like the old VCR.
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Old 15-05-2011, 16:29
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A timer set to use Accurate Recording will wake up the PVR some time beforehand (15 minutes on the Foxsat HDR although I think the spec is a minimum of ten minutes) so it is ready to start recording if the programme starts a little earlier than the published start time. If you use padding instead of Accurate Recording then it will wake up bang on the padded start time.
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Old 15-05-2011, 18:39
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Thanks for replies, can understand that, but, the Moto GP recording was set to auto start and finish, but did not have any sort of lead time, no quarter of an hour, came out of standby bang on the advertised start time, straight into recording.Recordings later in the day did have the lead in time that you describe. whatever the glich was it did not affect the recordings. Thanks again for the information.

Just had a thought, the MotoGP was set several days ago, which could well have been when padding was set to one minuet, perhaps thats it. ah well onwards and upwards.

Last edited by Wjimbo : 15-05-2011 at 18:49. Reason: Late thought
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