So I want to record a show, let's just say Thursday at 8:30 on CBS. I use my guide to go to Thursday at 8:30 and then I scroll to CBS and hit O.K. The timer menu then comes up and and says it will start 1 minute early and end 3 minutes late. I hit O.K., but when I play back the show the ending is cut off. If I edit the timer to end 5 minutes late all is O.K. This happened on my old receiver and on the hopper. How come 3 minutes is not enough?
My timers are slightly off, is this just me
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For up to 3 minutes after setting, the recorder will cut it off if it needs another tuner.
At 5 minutes it is not allowed to switch and you just can't get the other show.
The breakpoint for record before may be 1 minute.
-Ken
At 5 minutes it is not allowed to switch and you just can't get the other show.
The breakpoint for record before may be 1 minute.
-Ken
Yep if you want to get all the over runs on programs and be sure that they record it all , you have to set it for 5 minutes not 3. If you have back to back shows it will always cut it off at the official end of the program. I have this with shows on Tv-land , like Hot in Cleavland and The Exes. So I record one show at the 9:00 time and catch the other when the rerun it later in the night. Both shows go over by a minute or two and I got tired of missing the final joke line of the episodes when it cut off at the official end.
That's your best clue - what are the odds of you getting two different receivers (of different models) having this problem ? Safe to say the PROGRAM (or the network) is to blame.
i have had this problem for a long time. i gave up trying to fix it. it is a problem when you try to record two shows back to back.
Networks, and cable channels have been doing this for several years, way before PTAT. Keep in mind that the times affect all viewers whether they be Dish, Cable, DirectTV, or OTA....
yes that's the only time i see it happen. for me it's at 5pm with around the horn, followed by PTI on espn. never had this issue with directv but to have the pleasure of using a hopper i'll deal with any minor annoyance.
I haven't seen any need/advantage in setting the start time to one or two minutes. I always set the start time to 0 minutes and haven't missed anything. (does anyone have a show they know of that starts early?)
In the past, there was one show (that we watched) that did start early, but only 1-minute early, so the built-in default padding always covered it. I think it was ER, for what it's worth.
For programs that are on the same channel ... I can't see why the turner cannot start one program early and end the other late ... it is the same video stream ... yes it has to keep and manage 2 files or recordings ... but heck if Dish figured out how to do PTAT, you would think the turner could handle that?
