Do you watch your PTAT recordings right away, or do you wait for AutoHop?
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For NBC and ABC PTAT shows I wait until the next day so I can use Autohop. For CBS and Fox I don’t wait on Autohop since it takes a week before Autohop works.
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All of my PTAT takes a week. So, as I already sub to Hulu and Paramount+, both ad free, I watch my prime time programming that way. It’s all next day that way.
It depends on the show. For some we happen to wait until PTAT is enabled, others we may want to watch sooner.....
Not having DISH, how long does it take till Autohop is enabled and why does it take a day for some and a week for others ?
That reminds me... I never got Autohop on all the Olympics skating events I recorded. I guess that was because it was sports.
PTAT is all major network shows. The difference between next day and full week is all about how the individual network contracts are written. All of the network owned and operated stations are set to one week.
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NBC and ABC that are not owned by the network are the next day.
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We bite the bullet and wait for the next day on NBC and ABC. An hour show is only 43 minutes less commercials. What bugs me the most, like in the case of The Black List, which I like to save on my DVR, if a new episode is recorded every week, none of the shows are available for transfer. Only when they take a week off can you transfer what you have pending. In the case of the Olympics, I probably transferred 6 episodes of the BL.
Same here... For me its not that hard to fast forward through the commercials.
But, I do hate when I start doing the 30 second skips on a recording that I forgot was an AutoHop one.
But, I do hate when I start doing the 30 second skips on a recording that I forgot was an AutoHop one.
I’m glad to see that I am not the only one that does that. Senior moments!!!
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I still hit the skip button one time while in AutoHop mode. Don't want to get rusty! LOL
I hardly watch anything from the big nets, but I've found that while I LOVE Autohop, it is still easy enough for me to just skip ahead and then back if necessary to see the show I want to see, so I would have to say that I most often do NOT wait for Autohop, but I have waited for Autohop more than a few times.
The only time I really care about Autohop is if I want to save a program to my EHD, like say the Super Bowl. Yeah, i know the commercials for the SB and all that, but they haven't been all that good lately. 
I note that there will be an Adele concert coming up on March 20 on NBC. That one will definitely be saved to the EHD with Autohop.
I note that there will be an Adele concert coming up on March 20 on NBC. That one will definitely be saved to the EHD with Autohop.No ABC owned and operated like mine (WTVD) are 3 days NOT one week.
I stand corrected!
I just checked my PTAT for the week and I see that, indeed, ABC is 3 days on my owned and operated station KGO. The other three networks are 7 days.Similar threads
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