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If both tuners are recording and you're watching a pre-recorded program, when it ends you can't erase it unless you stop recording. The 921 assumes you want to watch live a channel other than the two being recorded.
What happens is you're told that you can't change channels into live mode without stopping recording since both tuners are being used. You used to be asked which of the two recordings do you want to watch.
You can cancel out of this and watch what's recording, or you can watch another pre-recorded program, but you can't erase a program while two others are being recorded unless you stop one. This is a step backward in functionality.
This may not happen if the channel you were watching prior to the recordings firing was on the same channel as one of the recordings. I haven't checked this.
Flasshe
12-17-04, 10:25 PM
I've noticed this too, although for me it does let me erase the pre-recorded program, it just stops one of the recordings if I erase it. It stops whichever one I say I want to tune to. Really bad. This never happened to me before L211. I've learned to never erase recordings while the recording light is on.
SimpleSimon
12-18-04, 01:54 AM
Yeah - me too.
Seems to be the same as the "STOP vs. JOIN" thread somewhere around here.
First thing that comes to my mind is why they would change something that was working into something so frelling stupid - then I remember who we're dealing with.
I'll speculate here that they found one of the memory leaks was due to trying to get from 'deleting event' to 'tune to live show' is simply "too far away" program-wise. In other words, yet another design flaw.
Remember when pressing stop while watching a recorded event stopped all recordings?
Not a very gracefull solution, but at least here is a work-around.
Change to another recorded event or to one of the recordings in progress. Then when you go back to the DVR menu, you can erase what you just finished watching.
SimpleSimon
12-18-04, 01:12 PM
Fax Man - what I posted about and what you're posting about are two separate and unrelated issues.
To coment on the disabling of the remote Stop button takes a simple question:
"Why can't it work just like the 501 or other DVRs?"
It's not like it's brain surgery to throw a message box up on the screen is it? No it's not. Now some might say it's too hard to figure out which event should be stopped. Yeah - for a 6-year-old maybe. If the Info and Cancel buttons can figure out what's happening, the Stop button shouldn't have any trouble with it either.
Because of what they did, it's obvious that the Stop button DOES have trouble with it - leading me back to that horrible software design issue again. Ya think?
This is the bug I posted a couple of weeks back. I had the same experience when I had two tuners recording and I attempted to erase a third program I was watching. It erased the program, but also terminated one of my recordings.
Fax Man - what I posted about and what you're posting about are two separate and unrelated issues.
To coment on the disabling of the remote Stop button takes a simple question:
"Why can't it work just like the 501 or other DVRs?"
It's not like it's brain surgery to throw a message box up on the screen is it? No it's not. Now some might say it's too hard to figure out which event should be stopped. Yeah - for a 6-year-old maybe. If the Info and Cancel buttons can figure out what's happening, the Stop button shouldn't have any trouble with it either.
Because of what they did, it's obvious that the Stop button DOES have trouble with it - leading me back to that horrible software design issue again. Ya think?
I agree with you 100% SimpleSimon regarding the illogical if not downright amateur way they've tried to kludge things together on the 921 on top of all of the 'Promises made, promises broken' by E*. I was just hoping to help Knealy find a way to lessen the likelyhood of losing recordings.
Remember when pressing stop while watching a recorded event stopped all recordings?
Not a very gracefull solution, but at least here is a work-around.
Change to another recorded event or to one of the recordings in progress. Then when you go back to the DVR menu, you can erase what you just finished watching.
Good idea. Thanks for the kludge.
tnsprin
12-19-04, 10:05 AM
Good idea. Thanks for the kludge.
Apparently sometimes a bug and sometimes it works. I do this(the original reported problem in thread) all the time, and Normally have no problem. The menu comes up I just so no to the stop recording, and it drops into one of the programs being recorded. Can then switch, or view any other previously recorded program.
However I did report once getting a 0 sec recording this way (even though it still showed both being recording.
Apparently sometimes a bug and sometimes it works. I do this(the original reported problem in thread) all the time, and Normally have no problem. The menu comes up I just so no to the stop recording, and it drops into one of the programs being recorded. Can then switch, or view any other previously recorded program.
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It probably works if the channel you happened to be tuned to just prior to watching the recorded program is recording.
It appears that when you've been watching a different channel the 921 figures the ONLY thing you can watch after watching a recored event is the channel you were watching last. If both tuners are being used elswhere, it gets very confused and irate.
tnsprin
12-19-04, 08:07 PM
It probably works if the channel you happened to be tuned to just prior to watching the recorded program is recording.
It appears that when you've been watching a different channel the 921 figures the ONLY thing you can watch after watching a recored event is the channel you were watching last. If both tuners are being used elswhere, it gets very confused and irate.
Normally works for me even if its NOT the same channel, in fact it rarely is. Usually I watch some things from tnt recorded during the day and have other channels recording at night. Have had it work even when two programs were recorded earlier at the same time, and then two new programs are in totally different channels. Except in rare cases, I always erase the program I just finished working before going on to view anything else.
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