My 622 can't tell SD from HD.

[Chazno]

Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I searched and found nothing.

My 622 will randomly record SD content, but take up equivalent HD space on the hard drive. Its been happening for a while, most recently Sunday, I recorded the Chiefs/Dolphins game which was broadcast in SD and it took 4 hours away from my HD counter (and a ton from SD). My wife records 3 daytime soaps daily and one of them (not sure which) is doing it as well even though they are all SD. If she doesn't watch them for a week I run out of space real quick.

Is this a known issue? Or is there a known workaround...that would force SD recording? Do I have something set up wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[JAG72]

What channel are you recording from? It sounds like you are recording off of you local digital channel instead of the analog channel.

 

[DVDDAD]

As far as the 622 goes, it doesn't matter if it's a SD or HD program, it matters whether or not it's recording off of a SD or HD cahnnel. If it's an SD program and you want to save recording space, record the program off of the SD channel.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

If you are recording SD rez content off of a HD channel, then it will consume nearly as much space as an HD program. The SD content is upconverted to 1080i on a HD channel. So while it won't look a whole lot better, it will consume close to the same amount of bandwidth.

 

[Chazno]

Is there a way to add my SD Locals? They are all in HD currently.

 

[lakebum431]

They are there, check out the 8000 section