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Do all BT YouView boxes often miss the end of programmes |
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Do all BT YouView boxes often miss the end of programmes
I find the biggest failing of the BT YouView box the way that it frequently stops recording before the end of a programme. There seems to be no way to get around this, some PVRs have an option to add an extra period onto the end of a recording or edit the time for a particular programme.
I take it there is way to get around this? |
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I find the biggest failing of the BT YouView box the way that it frequently stops recording before the end of a programme. There seems to be no way to get around this, some PVRs have an option to add an extra period onto the end of a recording or edit the time for a particular programme.
I take it there is way to get around this? 2. Set to record the programme following anything particularly important. I don't have much of a problem with this to be honest, and I find just as many missed endings on Sky due to absent updates or clashes caused by overruns - some of them inexplicable (such as the missed final 15 minutes of Anne Frank on Nat Geo/Sky last week, with no catch-up or repeats scheduled.
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I can't say Ive ever had the end of a programme chopped off.
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I have only seen that happen once in a while where the last 10 or so seconds of a programme as been cut off or recording starts a second or two after the programme has started. It has never happened on the BBC,ITV or CH4,
It mostly happens on Alibi or CBS Action but not all the time. I have found on theYouview box. I have BT TV. Darren |
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I think that this is more down to sloppy broadcasting than a defect on the part of the boxes.
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The problem being Youview's stubbornness to not cater for broadcaster sloppiness by allowing padding or hammock timers.
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I think that this is more down to sloppy broadcasting than a defect on the part of the boxes.
I only occasionally edit the times and it is usually the start times I edit because if I am recording several programmes I might want to give priority to one to ensure I get the start. |
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I can't say Ive ever had the end of a programme chopped off.
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1. Campaign to make broadcasters do what they are paid to do - adjust programme end times when they are overrunning.
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Yes I have had this with the Youview box and I find it bad that after years of knowledge that youview software updates have not put a fix to this that other boxes like Virgin TiVo boxes can it giving you options of adding recording time before and after the show along with adding time to any live shows that you press to record.
Even with the software on TiVo boxes they can miss the odd show if the data sent by the broadcaster does not put the data code to the show at the right place in the data package. I would think that BT would like keep customers and not making the software to pad the time to recordings is just not right after years of service. |
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Ive had the bt youview box for 14months now (out of contact at the mo having cancelled the bt tv when the 12months was up so its just a standard youview service now) and sometimes it has a mind of its own, when we have set a recording for example something that only last a half hour we go to the recordings to find its recorded nearly 2.5 or almost 3hours worth of stuff (whats that about??) Or somtimes instead of recording a programme all you get is the 1st 5mins or so... box is fully updated etc so unsure whats its thinking of sometimes..???
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Ive had the bt youview box for 14months now (out of contact at the mo having cancelled the bt tv when the 12months was up so its just a standard youview service now) and sometimes it has a mind of its own, when we have set a recording for example something that only last a half hour we go to the recordings to find its recorded nearly 2.5 or almost 3hours worth of stuff (whats that about??) Or somtimes instead of recording a programme all you get is the 1st 5mins or so... box is fully updated etc so unsure whats its thinking of sometimes..???
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Before I reply with realms of potential irrelevant rubbish, do you ever get programmes not recording or if they do record it records a repeat instead?
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