A manual timer is one that allows you to record a specific channel at any specified time, for as long as you want it to. This is not program specific, it is channel, time, and length specific.....
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What do you mean?
On Sirius channels.. there's no programming listing. So if you want to record something, you have to record the whole 8-hour block... same thing with OTA sub-channels that don't have program information.
We had a manual timer on our 722 set up to record CNN each night for one hour midnight to 1am Monday thru Friday. We needed to do this to record the Piers Morgan program for my wife because all three of our timers were busy when the orginal broadcast of Pier's program happened during prime time. This worked out well and we miss being able to do this with our Hopper/Joey system.
Instead of selecting a show on the guide, on the older ViP series (as well as the 625, 522, etc.) you could schedule a time (e.g. 4:30pm to 7:30pm) and a specific channel. In other words you manually input the time instead of using the guide.
That is of no use for "unattended recordings" such as when one is not able to access the STB away from home nor via internet. Unattended recordings is at the heart of a DVR.
Everyone else, count me in on greatly needing Manual Recording. It is the only way we can record MeTV as Dish provides no guide data for it in L.A. I am stumped as to why this was not included for 922 and Hopper. Can a Dish engineer explain? I requested such a question in Scot's thread for questions of Dish Tech people.
I meant just manually recording and stopping, but then after that post I realized you meant you knew what times you wanted, and would want to do it while not at the receiver. I do hope Dish re-adds manual timers. Seems like a step backwards and it's really going to become an issue for many when the OTA addon is released.
Just to be clear to everyone, one of the biggest advantages of a true Manual Timer is when the program does not exist yet. Two months from now it's announced a new series is starting and it's on a channel you may not watch often. You are afraid you will forget about the program by the time it comes. A Manual timer allows you to pick any date channel and time in the future, beyond the guide, as well as length and set it to record. It has astonished me the newer receivers don't do this.
To my knowledge they are the only DVR receivers that can't do it. (It's not an issue if that meaning is the timer doesn't work - there just is no manual timer)
Provided it has a name, yes...... For example, Revolution, a new weekly series scheduled for Fall won't come up in the guide for months. If you set a DISH PASS/Seek and Record event/s for 'Revolution' it will record in the future. It doesn't need the channel, time, day, or anything, other than the title...
Yes in principle, but if you don't know or spell the name wrong or just know part of the name it won't find it, even with exact unchecked. Try Mcoy and see if Hatfield and Mcoys show up. Worse, it won't work for any OTA subchannel with no guide info. Dish Pass works great for finding shows no matter where they are assuming you know enough correct info, but as a manual timer it's just ok useless for OTA as described.
I see Hat didn't find it either....
I see Hat didn't find it either....
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A Monday-Friday timer (or daily because Friday night is Saturday) will solve that.
I don't know, I just tried it. When I put 'Hat' in the Search field, I came up with quite a few 'Hat's. I continued with 'Hatf' and I then had a tile for Hatfields and McCoys. I tried 'Mc' and came up with quite a few 'Mc's. When I added the extra 'C', I had a tile for Hatfields and McCoys. Even if you don't get a tile for a program, after you input the title or even part of the title, you press your Green button to get to Seek and Record. You get a slate that allows you to set up the recording any way you desire. Once this is set up, the Hopper will find that program, whenever it shows up in the guide, whatever channel it is on, and record it using the criteria you established using Seek and Record.....
Of course you are correct, OTA sub-channels don't have guide data so this is useless in that case. But wait, Hoppers don't have OTA at this point either....
Thats what we had set up with our 722 but so far haven't found that feature with the Hopper.
Just go to the next "Piers Morgan" listing on the guide, click it, click "Record Series Timer," by "Episodes" choose "Mon-Fri" or "Daily."
Solves nothing. If the program isn't there how do you set a Monday-Friday timer on a 922 or Hopper? That's the exact point and problem, not to mention why have to record every day for a week to get one show? You can slice it and dice it, having the manual timer where you can set anytime of any date is handy and works better in some instances.
True I got lots of "Hats" I set the timer, looked when Hatfield/Mcoy was on and it was not set to record. Didn't try adding F. I'm certainly not claiming it won't work at all, it will, but for some with spelling problems or not putting in enough letters, you may not get what you are looking for.
Thanks - I completely missed that! Does it only record during that time frame? If so that solves the problem.
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