Ask Dbstalk: Lost Recording?

[Eagles]

Has anyone ever had a recorded show mysteriously disappear from your DVR list? I recorded "24" on 2/28/05 and checked it the next day. It showed up as recorded and indicated correctly a length of 64 minutes. I went to watch it last night and it was gone. It is possible that I may have "checked" it accidentally when I was cleaning up some recordings to delete. Any thoughts?

[Rodsman]

Eaagles,

After 212, I've had this happen once with an HD OTA recording. Saw it after it recorded, but the next day it was nowhere to be found. I also had a whole series of timers disappear, all for the SciFi channel, and would have been royally pissed if I hadn't noticed it. It is truly amazing how much money the Dish community is shelling out for such "trash." I love my Sony HD WEGA but it's almost not worth it because of my 921 experience. Dish does a great job of hooking you and as I've read all over the place, this site included, you're pretty much stuck with em unless you want to shell out some serious money to switch!

But since I had to talk my wife into all of this, I keep smiling!

[Michael P]

What the recording protected? If not it may have been deleted if you reached full capacity on the HD (unlikely, but possible, especially if this was an HD OTA recording which uses up more disk space than SD satellite recordings). Unprotected recordings will automatically dissappear if a newer recording is requested and there is no room on the HD.

[Skates]

I hate to bring this up now - and I know that a lot of people won't believe me...but rather than have a recording disappear, I had one appear by itself.

I had nothing recording at the time...I went in to the DVR menu to check on something I wanted to watch, and there it was...nine seconds worth of the movie "Win a date with Tad Hamilton".

Maybe someone will believe me - since we don't set timers for nine seconds. But also, if you knew me you'd know I would never record that movie :sure:

This was post-212 by the way - happened last night.

[Jim Parker]

Skates:
Maybe this is Charlies idea of Video on Demand. :lol:

[Skates]

Jim - I thought we were the ones who got to make the demand :D

[Michael P]

Perhaps your finger hit the record button while you were channel surfing. That happend to me once.

[Skates]

I will accept any theory out there - of course you can then tell me how the recording lasted 9 seconds...did I press "Stop" too? :p

I've had all kinds of quirky problems show up since 212, e.g. I get knocked out of a DVR recording that I'm watching if I delete another recording on the menu (happened three times).

Certain things have been fixed and new things have been broken. Ultimately, I can live with the things that are broken...not that it makes it ok...