Puzzling 721 behavior

[TomCat]

Well, actually, a lot of the 721's behavior is puzzling, but let me be specific:

When I set an autotune for a show, our old yet annoying friend the blinky clock will appear five minutes early giving an option to stop that timer or not. Fair enough, that's expected. What is not expected is that choosing NOT to stop such a timer dumps one immediately to that channel. I've already instructed the damned thing previously that I want it to autotune at a particular time, so why when it asks me if I still want to do that does it then instead dump me directly to that channel 5 minutes early? Doesn't the 721 have any basic concept that if I saw and responded to the blinky clock in the first place that there's a very high probability that I am actually still trying to watch the current channel and really don't quite yet want to stop? What it should always do in such a case is this: it should acknowledge that I still want the autotune at the proper time, kill the blinky clock, and F***ING WAIT 5 MINUTES LIKE I ORIGINALLY TOLD IT TO in the first place! :rolleyes:

I mean, WTF...that should be a total no-brainer. Who's the head-programmer-in-charge-of-ergonomics for this thing...Jackie Chan?

[BobMurdoch]

You can go to the preferences menu and disble the blinking clock if it REALLY annoys you.......

[TerryC]

I believe the 50x does this as well. It has confounded me for a long time.

[TomCat]

Originally posted by BobMurdoch
You can go to the preferences menu and disble the blinking clock if it REALLY annoys you.......

Possibly you've missed my point. The blinky clock isn't the problem...dismissing it and the 721 resultingly going to the autotune 5 minutes early, is.

Which brings up another ergonomic foible of the 721. If you do disable the blinky clock, then you disable it for all timers, including the "reminder" timers, which depend solely on the blinking clock to work. So, disable blinky, and reminder timers are out the window. Nice. My 7-year-old niece can program better.

[Jacob S]

So you want the blinky clock for some timers and not others or just for the shows that are going to record but not for autotune?

[Halfsek]

Originally posted by Jacob S
So you want the blinky clock for some timers and not others or just for the shows that are going to record but not for autotune?

I think that TomCat wants the blinky clock for only reminder timers. That's actually a good idea. It kind of defeats the purpose of having a reminder timer if you can't see the reminder.

But then again, I've never used the reminder timer. So for all I know it reminds you some other way than using the blinky clock.