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somguy
04-10-08, 01:36 PM
I had my HR21-700 set to record Boston Legal on ABC @10pm today on 04/08/08. I also had Gene Simmons Family Jewels set to record on A&E @10:30pm today. The TV was off while they were recording. I saw the orange light on to indicate that the dvr was recording. The last channel that the dvr was left on before it was shut off earlier in the afternoon was Ch. 80 which is CBSE which is actually a basically black screen. I leave it on that channel when I go to nap in the afternoon; don't ask why.
Anyways, when I turned everything on at 11:40pm tonight the tv showed Ch.80 and yet in the Playlist and under History it shows as both shows have recorded; no partials listed. Somebody give me a logical explanation how this occurred? How could have both shows recorded in full and yet the dvr was left on Ch. 80 and not on one of the channels that it had last recorded. As far as I know, both tuners had to be used since Boston Legal records for an hour and at 10:30pm both tuners were needed to be in use. One tuner cannot record 2 shows at once and I do not have a SWM connection nor do I use an antenna. The only logical conclusion I can think of is that maybe Boston Legal had a partial recording and it shut off by 10:30pm and it's a false reading on the dvr. Even if the dvr reset itself after 11pm then it would leave it on one of the last recorded channels. I will stay bewildered as I cannot comprehend how 2 shows can record at the same time and not use both tuners in order to do so.

CCarncross
04-10-08, 01:59 PM
I believe that if you have the dvr set to record a particular channel, it will return to that channel after it records your scheduled shows, no real mystery here. If you are actively watching a channel, and it prompts to change the channel, and you answer the prompt, I believe it will stay on the last recorded channel on that particular tuner.

n3ntj
04-11-08, 10:29 AM
My HR20-700 did this exact thing last night!!! I was watching ESPN (206) and at 7:45pm (ET) the HR20-700 changed to 201 (The D* setup channel). No recordings were scheduled for that time and no one was home but me. The remote control was on the table next to me and was not touched.

Very Weird!! Any idea what's going on?

JLucPicard
04-11-08, 01:37 PM
I had read something when looking into a problem with my Sony Wega HDTV that it will sometimes turn itself off if the batteries in the remote are too low. Never heard of this with DirecTV equipment.

pigskins
04-11-08, 03:57 PM
My older Hughes DirecTV w/Tivo DVR does this - we set the sleep timer on the bedroom TV and when we turn it on in the morning to watch the news, it's on a completely different channel than we were watching the night before! A lot of times it would switch to Discovery so I assumed Discovery was paying to have the receiver change to its channel or something!

LameLefty
04-11-08, 04:02 PM
I've noticed the same thing occasionally. I'll be watching something pre-recorded and when I finish watching, the live tuner is showing something on a channel I generally never watch, one that I know I wasn't recording from either.