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View Poll Results: How far in advance do you set your PVR to record off the EPG (excluding series links)
1 day. 6 20.69%
2 days. 1 3.45%
3 days. 0 0%
4 days. 0 0%
5 days. 0 0%
6 days. 2 6.90%
7 days. 7 24.14%
8 days (as far as it will let you.) 9 31.03%
Other eg only use Series Link or never record off EPG. (Please state in thread.) 0 4 13.79%
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Old 06-12-2011, 13:04
Richardcoulter
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How far in advance do you set your recordings on the EPG, excluding the automatic series links?

Please help with my research by voting in the poll and/or by contributing to the thread if you have any comments regarding this subject-thanks.
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Old 06-12-2011, 13:09
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Most days only a day ahead unless going to be away from home. As I am retired that must influence the way I do it. Those in full time employment would I guess pick up the following weeks extras at the weekend.
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Old 06-12-2011, 13:13
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Most days only a day ahead unless going to be away from home. As I am retired that must influence the way I do it. Those in full time employment would I guess pick up the following weeks extras at the weekend.
Same applies to me.

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Old 06-12-2011, 13:26
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Can be anything - usually when I find out about a programme - either by a trail on TV or something I've known about and hunted for.

So can be up to as far in advance as the PVR will let me - sometime a day ot two ahead, sometimes within hours of the programme starting. Only by thinking about the question posed do I realise how much I use he remote record facility from my mobile.
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Old 06-12-2011, 13:42
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Same here, it can be anything from 30 mins to a week ahead.
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Old 06-12-2011, 14:31
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Its daft to record far ahead because they change the ids so much that you get lots of missed recordings, several a week.

I set tomorrows recordings over my morning cup of tea.
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Old 06-12-2011, 14:49
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As per my reply in the Sky forum:Mostly one or two days in advance but sometimes a lot further ahead if I see an interesting advert. I record everything and haven't watched anything 'live' in years.
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Old 09-12-2011, 11:11
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Its daft to record far ahead because they change the ids so much that you get lots of missed recordings, several a week.
I schedule recordings once a week for the whole week ahead, and I have 40-50 recordings scheduled per week (radio and TV). I don't have any problems of this sort. Maybe it depends on your PVR.

Series links go wrong on rare occasions (mainly on C5). But I nearly always spot the failure in time, and set a one-off or fixed weekly recording instead.
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Old 09-12-2011, 12:09
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I schedule recordings once a week for the whole week ahead, and I have 40-50 recordings scheduled per week (radio and TV). I don't have any problems of this sort. Maybe it depends on your PVR.

Series links go wrong on rare occasions (mainly on C5). But I nearly always spot the failure in time, and set a one-off or fixed weekly recording instead.
It shouldnt depend on the make, maybe on the content, sport changes a lot even though the timings dont change.

The horror channel change the film times by 5-10 mins quite often and this removes the recording link.
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Old 09-12-2011, 12:56
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Usually when a new series starts, when I notice it.

Sometimes less than an hour before something starts, because I press stop on the PVR, jump back to live TV, think "oh, that looks interesting", and record it from the +1 channel.

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