Annoying side effect of new 50x record feature...

[toddjb]

You see something on that you want to start recording INSTANTly, naturally, you hit the RECORD button. Whoops...up comes the 4 option record menu. Let's see...move the cursor up to "Manual User Stop," select it, select "done," recording begins...by then you have missed the specific event you wanted to capture! :shrug:

Has anyone figured out a quick one button method to instant recording?


(I realize this would be possible by hitting pause, then record, then the options, etc. There should be an easier way.)

-todd

[Chris Blount]

Actually all you need to do is press pause, scan back to where you want the recording to begin, then press the record button. You haven't missed anything.

[toddjb]

yeah...i caught that (see end of my post- but i didn't explain it well :) ), but i was hoping for a one button solution. easier to remember and explain to others.

thanks, though!

-todd

[dtcarson]

Here's the annoying feature I noticed, which I assume is related to the 501's always-on recording:
we have a 301 in the kitchen, only about 25 feet from the main tv with the 501. Sometimes both tv's are on the same channel; when they are, the sound is about 1/4 second off from one to the next. I assume it's because the 501 constantly records, so it's actually delaying the playback a split second to process it through the hard drive. I guess that's not due to the new 501 update, but it's a little annoyance nonetheless.
But I can deal with it, for the functionality I get from the 501.

[bolco]

1/4 second is actually not bad. You can have 2 non-pvr's, and they can be off by a half second or so. However, when you have a Model 5000 in the kitchen and a 7200 in the living room on the same channel, the 4-1/2 second delay on the 7200 is REALLY annoying.

[DarrellP]

When the REC button is pressed, it should start recording immediately then pop up the options for what you want to do with that recording. That, or they could institute a One Touch Recording button like VCR's have

[sna]

Last night I was watching a show and hit the record button. The 4 option record page came up. I don't know why but it did not give me access to all four of the choices. I tried the choices again and it would only give me access to manual stop???????? This is not the first time that I have noticed this, I've had occasion to see this at least 5 or 6 times.

Don't understand that, at all!

[toddjb]

Sna,

This happened to me yesterday, but it was actually the guide just being smart, I presume. I was into a Seinfeld and decided to record it, so, I rewinded back to the beginning, hit pause, & then record and got the menu you described.

What I realized was that I had rewinded back to 7:29, which was friends on the guide, but I was clearly recording the next 30 minutes, which was Seinfeld. So, I thought this might confuse the 50X so I FF to 7:30ish (guide matched recorded show) and the Record option now gave me access to all 4 choices...I wanted to stop at end of this event.

So, I think if it can not clearly tell what you want to record, it doesn't list all options. In my case, I was in the last minute of a show (Friends) so it wouldn't make sense to "record until end of event" ...or something like that.

-todd