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Not "Watched", "Part Watched"! |
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Not "Watched", "Part Watched"!
If I hit "stop" close to the end of a program, say 50 minutes into an hour program, my box decides I've watched all the program.
Changing the status to "Watched" is slightly irritating, but worse, it moves the current position indicator to the end, ignoring the fact I hadn't finished. To finish the program I have to start at the beginning and "skip forward" to where I was. Why not just remember where I was? |
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I'm seeing this behaviour too on occasion, however I think I have a work-around.
Instead of hitting the stop button, hit the back button to exit a programme and the box should remember your progress. |
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I'll give that a try and let you know.
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Surely if you hit the Stop button, you are telling the box to stop recording. Why would you do that if the programme hadn't finished? By stopping the recording at that point, the box correctly indicates all of the recording that it made, so the indicator appears at the end (of the recording, not the programme). As the previous poster suggested, by hitting the Back button, you can come out of the recording and look at something else, but the box will continue to record in the background.
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I use the convention of locking any part-watched recording to remind myself that I have still to watch the rest of it.
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Surely if you hit the Stop button, you are telling the box to stop recording. Why would you do that if the programme hadn't finished? By stopping the recording at that point, the box correctly indicates all of the recording that it made, so the indicator appears at the end (of the recording, not the programme). As the previous poster suggested, by hitting the Back button, you can come out of the recording and look at something else, but the box will continue to record in the background.
If you haven't seen this problem, maybe you always WATCH all recordings in one sitting, or maybe not all boxes have the same problem of deciding a program is WATCHED when it is only part WATCHED. |
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I am very sorry to have misunderstood your ambiguous post. Please accept my apologies. By the way, the use of block capitals in forum posts is generally considered as shouting and rude.
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I am very sorry to have misunderstood your ambiguous post. Please accept my apologies. By the way, the use of block capitals in forum posts is generally considered as shouting and rude.
By the way, I tried hitting "Back" instead of "Stop" to exit playback, and on this one occasion it changed the status to "Part Watched" and remembered where I was. I'll have to try a few more times before I'm confident this is a reliable work-around, but a promising start. |
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We will agree to differ on the ambiguity, and thank you for stopping shouting.
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