I've discovered a new problem with recording. I think..
The system seems to remember that I had previously recorded a show even though I erased the shows and deleted the timers.
The first recordings were all dorked up with one to three minutes truncated on every single recording thus rendering them useless.
So I erased them and the timers that recorded them. I then created new timers.
Now in my guide I see those shows that I want to re-record a second time, except with longer times (an extra 5 minutes tacked on) but the shows list in the guide with a red X that they are being skipped.
Another very annoying problem. Sometimes I'll tune in something cool at random and I'll rewind then press record. It will say "Do you want to record the remainder of this program? and I hit yet.
It starts recording but it stops recording at the listed end time, say 8:30pm even though the show may run over 3 minutes to 8:33.
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And when it's done you can NOT rewind that channel any more. It will only allow you to rewind to the point where the recording ended.
Catching the last of a show this way, impossible!
Last night I stumbled upon Biography for The Munsters, I tuned to it like 2:01am so it was just getting started. I hit record right away, I really wanted that show. It recorded but because the guide listed it at ending at 3:00am, BOOM! so stopped the recording, right at 3:00am even though it actually went to like 3:02 or 3:03am.. There was nothing I could do to extend the time, I knew during that whole hour that the recording was doomed to truncation...
Why can't you just simply hit RECORD and it just rolls until you hit STOP? THAT hacks me off!!
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I like the CONCEPT of the "record until end of show" feature but it totally fails in function because soooo many networks have to be JERKS and run their shows beyond the listed times!
Come to think of it, why can't Dish just send the proper times in the guide? WE all know the shows run screwy start and stop times, if we know it, and we can figure it out, certainly they can. Even TitanTV lists the History Channel shows start and end times with the extra minutes. Check TitanTV.com for any History Channel show that starts at 10pm.. It will say the show is one hour and one minute long, starts at 10pm, ends at 11:01pm. Next show will list as 1 hour long starting at 11:01pm and ending at 12:01am. etc... They can do it, why can't Dish?
I'm guessing that most of these things are happening because I'm an idiot. This thing is alien to me and radically different than anything I've ever used before. I had never touched a Dish tuner until a few weeks ago.