Guess there is a reason to DISH receiver default timer settings being 1 minute before and 3 minutes after?.![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
which is a moot point when you have back to back shows as dish doesnt record the overlap unless you force it to use another tuner. Directv does record the overlap just fine (even if you set it for 15 minutes after) and doesnt tie up an extra tuner
Having the MT2(Dual Over The Air Tuners Module)which gives me 4 tuners(2SAT+2OTA) in my DISH receiver keeps my recording conflicts from becoming an issue.![]()
having 5 tuners on the HR34 does that for me too
But for the OP with a 211k the sat tuner limit of 1 does become an issue if there is back to back programs set to record which is what part of the topic is about![]()
The reup/down link would only account for 1/2 a sec even if there was some processing sets the max would be a 1sec. So the full minute or more is the on purpose slip that the net is doing to make it harder for you to tune off their channel. ABC does it a lot also.I dont have cable so I dont know. But when I had both D* and E* Direct was a second or two quicker. It depends on the station, compression rate, etc
cable wouldnt have the lag as they dont have to beam it back up a second time. Also adding to a lag is DVR's as they buffer a little bit first
Is there any reason why they are squishing the video? It looks HORRIBLE. It looks like they are taking a 480i and squishing it down to fit an HD screen.
Then, one would think you would know the term for what you are describing is "stretching" the image, not "squishing".I dabble in photography, I have a very expensive professional level camera (Canon 5D Mark II) and a large bag of very expensive lenses so I'm very, very attuned to image quality.
MY 722k records the overlaps all the time. It automatically uses the other tuner, if one tuner is busy recording.which is a moot point when you have back to back shows as dish doesnt record the overlap unless you force it to use another tuner. Directv does record the overlap just fine (even if you set it for 15 minutes after) and doesnt tie up an extra tuner
In Dee's image of her TV screen, under the Dish banner, it shows "HD: Normal" and "SD: Normal"...mine only says "Normal", whether I'm on the HD or the SD channel. To anyone: is that receiver specific or is it a setting within my 722? I'm not talking about changing from "Normal" to "Stretch", etc, but the fact that both the HD and the SD settings are displayed on the screen at once.
Many TV's have a setting that does that. Depending on brand, I've seen it called Justify, Wide Zoom, Zoom2, etc.Yes, I think Dee Ann should have called it stretch-o-vision. I think I've seen her "black hole" effect on HGTV as well. The stretch is nonlinear, so people in the center look reasonably OK. But when they get off to one side, it's like they're made of rubber or something.
Hear hear!Stretch, squish, whatever.. It's just wrong..
Many TV's have a setting that does that. Depending on brand, I've seen it called Justify, Wide Zoom, Zoom2, etc.
Hear hear!
If you have the format set to "normal" all SD channels will look like that (box in a box). If you change to stretch or partial zoom then it fills the screenThe first shot is of the NON HD diy channel. The video doesn't fill the screen at all, there is a substantial border around the video on all four sides.
But, the video isn't stretched out and distorted.
if you do 3 minutes after thats still part of the "default" and still will drop the padding if back to back. 5 minutes after or 2 minutes before fixes thatI went through my DVR and checked and I had dozens and dozens of shows that were missing one and two minutes!
I deleted them all, I deleted all the timers then did a check switch to force a new guide download.
Then I went through and made new timers that record an extra three minutes past the scheduled show end.
This won't work for back to back shows but Iceberg explained that it will cause a schedule conflict but the tuner will resolve it on it's own by searching for the next airing of the 2nd show and recording that.
A lot of new episodes air in prime time then air again 3-4 hours later.