Season 2 Premiere

[SerenityValley]

Premiere was good, but I missed the first half. Needs to pick up speed! My baby taped it for me though.

They are re-airing it Saturday (I think at 8pm).  Just in case....

Scratch that, make it 9pm!

[Phyll33]

So, I was all set to watch the season premier, had the DVR set to record T:SCC, (they are re-airing Chuck on Saturday so I'll record it then, otherwise, with two shows recording, nobody would be able to watch TV!), and along comes my daughter "Mom, dad won't let me watch TV in the living room, can I watch Dancing w/the Stars in your room?"  Which just so happened to be where I was watching Chuck!  So, knowing it's coming on again, I let her have my TV.  So, I won't see it all until Saturday unless I watch it online tonight.

Gotta get another DVR for my room!!

  Hmmm, are you sure you can't watch a channel when recording two shows? I can with my DVR.  I have Comcast
and it works fine recording while I watch something else. I can also watch something on my DVR while it is recording
two shows too.

Yep, I'm sure.  If I'm recording two shows the only option is to watch one of the channels recording.  It's a "dual-tuner" DVR.

  That is strange. Mine is a dual tuner too but my instruction book says there is no problem taping two shows and watching
something else that is not being taped. I thought I couldn't too when I first got it but It said I could and it worked for me.
I thought most cable companies used basically the same equipment with these. Motorola seemed to have a lock on this
DVR equipment which is what I have.

[SerenityValley]

>> That is strange. Mine is a dual tuner too but my instruction book says there is no problem taping two shows and watching
something else that is not being taped. I thought I couldn't too when I first got it but It said I could and it worked for me.
I thought most cable companies used basically the same equipment with these. Motorola seemed to have a lock on this
DVR equipment which is what I have.<<

When I am taping two shows and try to change the channel I get a "pop-up box" that gives me the option to cancel recording and change channel or continue recording and cancel channel change.  Ah, well, Friday I'm going by Insight (our local cable co) to pay my bill and I'm gonna go ahead a get a second DVR.  With my boy back home, I need to run cable to his room anyway, so I'll just move my box downstairs and put the new DVR in my room.  Then I can record FOUR shows...

[Phyll33]

>> That is strange. Mine is a dual tuner too but my instruction book says there is no problem taping two shows and watching
something else that is not being taped. I thought I couldn't too when I first got it but It said I could and it worked for me.
I thought most cable companies used basically the same equipment with these. Motorola seemed to have a lock on this
DVR equipment which is what I have.<<

When I am taping two shows and try to change the channel I get a "pop-up box" that gives me the option to cancel recording and change channel or continue recording and cancel channel change.  Ah, well, Friday I'm going by Insight (our local cable co) to pay my bill and I'm gonna go ahead a get a second DVR.  With my boy back home, I need to run cable to his room anyway, so I'll just move my box downstairs and put the new DVR in my room.  Then I can record FOUR shows...

  Okay, I looked on the new DVR I have and they didn't say it had that capability although it didn't say it didn't either.
The older one I have down stairs I believe said it did but I will have to recheck. What I noticed is if the TV is set on
a different channel from the ones I am recording then there does not seem to be a problem watching that channel
while the two are recording. There may be a problem if I wanted to change that channel though.

I'm getting frustrated with Fox this year. They are running over their shows and the DVR is cutting off the tail end of
some. It has happened with Bones twice so it looks like it will be a good idea to add a couple minutes to the end of
their shows this year. What a pain.

[SerenityValley]

>>They are running over their shows and the DVR is cutting off the tail end of
some. It has happened with Bones twice so it looks like it will be a good idea to add a couple minutes to the end of
their shows this year. What a pain.<<

Glad it's not just me!  I missed the very end of Bones last night.  Drives me nuts.  My hubby will occasionally record UFC fights on SpikeTV.  One day (when I was not home) his show got cut off.  He was convinced that this was because the DVR was too full so he went through and deleted a ton of my shows I hadn't watched yet!  I was SO mad.  He does not understand that if the DVR was full and he had something recording, the DVR would automatically delete the lowest priority show.  I could not make him understand that if a show runs over the allotted time it will cut off.

Oh, and back to the reording two shows discussion, if I have the tv on one channel and two diff channels are about to record, it will switch to one of the recording channels when the program starts.

[Phyll33]

>>They are running over their shows and the DVR is cutting off the tail end of
some. It has happened with Bones twice so it looks like it will be a good idea to add a couple minutes to the end of
their shows this year. What a pain.<<

Glad it's not just me!  I missed the very end of Bones last night.  Drives me nuts.  My hubby will occasionally record UFC fights on SpikeTV.  One day (when I was not home) his show got cut off.  He was convinced that this was because the DVR was too full so he went through and deleted a ton of my shows I hadn't watched yet!  I was SO mad.  He does not understand that if the DVR was full and he had something recording, the DVR would automatically delete the lowest priority show.  I could not make him understand that if a show runs over the allotted thyme it will cut off.

Oh, and back to the reording two shows discussion, if I have the tv on one channel and two diff channels are about to record, it will switch to one of the recording channels when the program starts.

  Tell your husband that the DVR is set to record the shows the way they are scheduled and not just to record the show no
matter how far over they go. If something is scheduled in their menu from 8-9 that is what you get unless you add minutes
to the end of it which is what I'm going to do from now on. They don't make it easy to find out how to do this though.

Yes, If you turn something on just as it starts and the others start to record it will try and switch you over but if you turn
the TV on after they have started to record and it is set on a different channel it seems to be fine watching that channel.
It takes a little bit of planning to set the TV on the channel you want to watch and then turn it on after the others start
to record but it worked for my husband unless we just have an odd DVR. 

Luckily I was watching Bones last night so I saw the end of it but I usually record it too so I can rewatch it and noticed it
cut off early. It would be nice if it would cut off at the end of the 9 o'clock minute instead of right at the start of turning
9:00. One other episode did that too and I've noticed the others were creeping close. Terminator is cutting it close too,
as it is I don't get to see all of the previews for next week so I guess I will have to add a couple minutes to that too.

[TinkTanker]

Our cable company (usually) sees when a program is scheduled to run a minute or two long and will adjust accordingly.

[Phyll33]

Our cable company (usually) sees when a program is scheduled to run a minute or two long and will adjust accordingly.

  That's what I thought they would do with the DVR but they don't. The cable company keeps it on if you are watching
it but the DVR cuts off at the scheduled time it was listed.

[SerenityValley]

Premiere was good, but I missed the first half. Needs to pick up speed! My baby taped it for me though.

They are re-airing it Saturday (I think at 8pm).  Just in case....

Scratch that, make it 9pm!

Okay, now the buttheads at NBC are showing Knight Rider at 9 pm!  After I had it all ready to record.  Fortunately, Chuck is airing on Bravo Sunday at 5~

[tabin]

Premiere was good, but I missed the first half. Needs to pick up speed! My baby taped it for me though.

They are re-airing it Saturday (I think at 8pm).  Just in case....

Scratch that, make it 9pm!

Okay, now the buttheads at NBC are showing Knight Rider at 9 pm!  After I had it all ready to record.  Fortunately, Chuck is airing on Bravo Sunday at 5~

HULU.com is great.