Maybe the R15 just needs to rest???

[rlambert7]

It had been at least a few days since the 30-sec slip and the jumpback functions on my R15 had gone sour. Then, all of a sudden, on Friday night, the jumpback degraded to a zero-second jumpback. The 30-sec slip was still working fine, though (they usually degrade together as a "package deal"). I knew my wife and I were going to be out for several hours on Saturday, so I figured I do a reset (because that always fixes the problem with the jumpback and 30-sec slip functions) before going to bed. Well, I forgot to do the reset. My wife had the TV on for about an hour Saturday morning. As we were about to leave I turned off the TV, but somehow failed to put the R15 into standby. Anyway, we got home early Saturday evening, and I wanted to watch the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships I had set to record while we were out. That's when I realized I had forgotten to do the reset the night before. I thought, "RATS, this is going to be a pain." But, the jumpback function was now working fine. I blasted through all of the commercials with the 30-sec slip, and when I overshot coming out of the commercials, as I always do, I was able to quickly hop back to the resumption point of the show. Maybe the R15 just needs to "rest"???

[Bobman]

I never actually verified this yet but I think the R-15 acts up when its doing many things at once.

I noticed the searches and some other things get slower when your recording two shows at once and/or watching a third show.

The DirecTiVos dont allow you to search or use the guide and some other things when watching a recording. Maybe the reason was to eliminate some of these problems.

[rlambert7]

I never actually verified this yet but I think the R-15 acts up when its doing many things at once.

I noticed the searches and some other things get slower when your recording two shows at once and/or watching a third show.

The DirecTiVos dont allow you to search or use the guide and some other things when watching a recording. Maybe the reason was to eliminate some of these problems.
Interesting. I am often recording two shows at the same time while watching something from MyVOD. Usually, I just skip thru the commercials, but sometimes, when a commercial comes on, I will do searches. I don't think I ever noticed slowness because of the "busyness".

Today, I was recording two shows while watching one from MyVOD. The jumpback was working fine. Then, it dropped down to just one show being recorded. Still the jumpback was working fine. Then, all of a sudden, just like yesterday, the jumpback degraded to a zero-second jumpback. I just finished watching the MyVOD show my pressing "play" to get out of a "stack" of 30-second skips, and then RW'd to back over the part I overshot. Sometime tomorrow I will see if the jumpback has restoresd itself without doing a reset.

[cabanaboy1977]

Today, I was recording two shows while watching one from MyVOD. The jumpback was working fine. Then, it dropped down to just one show being recorded. Still the jumpback was working fine. Then, all of a sudden, just like yesterday, the jumpback degraded to a zero-second jumpback. I just finished watching the MyVOD show my pressing "play" to get out of a "stack" of 30-second skips, and then RW'd to back over the part I overshot. Sometime tomorrow I will see if the jumpback has restoresd itself without doing a reset.

? where you watching one of the two that was currently recording?

[walters]

I never actually verified this yet but I think the R-15 acts up when its doing many things at once.

I noticed the searches and some other things get slower when your recording two shows at once and/or watching a third show.

The DirecTiVos dont allow you to search or use the guide and some other things when watching a recording. Maybe the reason was to eliminate some of these problems.

Actually, if you're using the guide (and hence watching live TV) then it's always recording two things and playing back a third. The fact that the thing it's playing back happens to be one of the things it's recording doesn't make a difference--it's still three streams.

They don't allow you to watch a recording during search because they devote the entire screen to the search. It's just a UI design difference; not a hardware limitation.

[rlambert7]

? where you watching one of the two that was currently recording?
Sometimes I will be watching one of the two shows I am recording, but I'm pretty sure in the case I posted about I was watching something from MyVOD that was not one of the two shows that was being recorded.

[Bobman]

Actually, if you're using the guide (and hence watching live TV) then it's always recording two things and playing back a third.


Doesn't the R-15 only have a single buffer not two ? So it would need to be actually recording two shows like I said to be recording two things, right ?:confused:

[cabanaboy1977]

Sometimes I will be watching one of the two shows I am recording, but I'm pretty sure in the case I posted about I was watching something from MyVOD that was not one of the two shows that was being recorded.

If you where that would make sense. Because if your watching a show in MYVOD that is being recorded, after the show ends the jumpback button is disabled. They did that to prevent it from jumping to the end of the program.

[walters]

Doesn't the R-15 only have a single buffer not two ? So it would need to be actually recording two shows like I said to be recording two things, right ?:confused:

Right, but I was talking about the DTiVo.

You said it didn't allow you to use the guide (and other things) while working on three streams (record two, watch one). I'm just saying the only way to use the guide on a DTiVo is on live TV, and in live TV you are always recording two streams and watching a third. And the other things (to do, now playing, wishlists, etc.) take up the whole screen because that's how they wanted it (to display more information), not because it couldn't handle displaying video (it is, after all, doing all of this over a video loop).