Ok an update on the 'seek' timers. When you do a search to create a timer (my example is NASCAR again), you will get some 'series' or event listed to the right you will need to select one of these (it will not select all) and it will create a timer for that 'series'. In the case of NASCAR, it listed several different NASCAR programs, but it did list "NASCAR Racing". So this was good, I create a timer for this which gets defined as a "seek" timer and not a "dvr" timer.. So although not truely the same as the "dish pass" and recording everything with the word NASCAR, it will record all of the racing I was interested in across all channels. Cool. However, there are other issues.
1) You cannot edit the 'seek' timers. With a DVR timer you get the edit option which allows you to change the early start or late stop parameters, number of shows to save, etc. The 'seek' timer does not have this option so now you cannot default this timer to end 90 minutes late like I did on my VIP 722, because many races go past their scheduled event time.. That really sucks.
2) Ok I then went in to the scheduled recordings for NASCAR and was able to edit the actual scheduled event. I thought Ok this will be a work around. You can go in and edit the scheduled recording and there you can change the start early and end late parameters. Once you change them it shows "saving" on the screen. All good, except when you go back in to look at the scheduled event, these parameters have been set back to 0. So I currently do not have any means of allowing these recording to go beyond their scheduled times. This really sucks.
On a side note, as noted above you can set a 'seek' timer up for your favorites sports team and a timer will be created for them. I noted that somehow the end late parameter associated with these events gets set to a plus 60 minutes. I did not set it, it defaulted.
So I hope dish corrects this major oversight with regards to the 'seek' timers. I think you should be able to record everything that has your search word in it, and you should be able to edit the parameters of the 'seek' timer. This was how I created many of my timers on the VIP 722.
I hate to upgrade to new hardware and lose features that you had before.
1) You cannot edit the 'seek' timers. With a DVR timer you get the edit option which allows you to change the early start or late stop parameters, number of shows to save, etc. The 'seek' timer does not have this option so now you cannot default this timer to end 90 minutes late like I did on my VIP 722, because many races go past their scheduled event time.. That really sucks.
2) Ok I then went in to the scheduled recordings for NASCAR and was able to edit the actual scheduled event. I thought Ok this will be a work around. You can go in and edit the scheduled recording and there you can change the start early and end late parameters. Once you change them it shows "saving" on the screen. All good, except when you go back in to look at the scheduled event, these parameters have been set back to 0. So I currently do not have any means of allowing these recording to go beyond their scheduled times. This really sucks.
On a side note, as noted above you can set a 'seek' timer up for your favorites sports team and a timer will be created for them. I noted that somehow the end late parameter associated with these events gets set to a plus 60 minutes. I did not set it, it defaulted.
So I hope dish corrects this major oversight with regards to the 'seek' timers. I think you should be able to record everything that has your search word in it, and you should be able to edit the parameters of the 'seek' timer. This was how I created many of my timers on the VIP 722.
I hate to upgrade to new hardware and lose features that you had before.
