Problem with DVR number selection

[SpeckedOut]

Hello, I have a 622 in dual TV mode with two separate users, both watching and recording on variable personal schedules. I am having trouble with DVR number selection. The current setup automatically selects DVR 1 for recordings scheduled from TV 1 and DVR 2 for TV 2, this is normally fine. Sometimes it is not fine and I would like to override the DVR number by moving the recording to the other tuner but I can't find a way to do it. It would seem like a great feature to be able to select at record time, and to be able to change it later using record options.

Even more aggravating is if you try to get around this. For example if you set up a recording on one TV, then later decide you want to watch something else on that TV live at that time so you "delete" the recording request by doing a "user skip" and then go to the other TV and try to set up the recording. It tries to restore the skipped event on the original DVR tuner choice instead of defining a new recording to the other DVR that matches the TV your are now scheduling from! :nono2: There seems to be no workaround. I must be missing something.

Since release 3.65 my sound problems are gone and I really like this receiver except for the problems with the DVR programming. It is much more difficult than my Replay was. I especially dislike that when I delete something it is not really deleted but "skipped" instead. If skip is important to some people that is great, but I would prefer a working delete and some control over my DVR tuner choice.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

[Jim5506]

Have you enabled Record Plus - see page 56 of the manual.

[SpeckedOut]

Have you enabled Record Plus - see page 56 of the manual.

Thanks for the reply Jim. I originally had the system set up this way and I believe the problem was that with Record Plus on when you select the default DVR it sets it the same for both TVs. This means one person gets what they want and the other gets all the recordings defaulted to them. I turned Record Plus off based on the recommendation given in "scenario 2" in the document "Dish Network Guide to Recording Preferences for Dual Tuner Receivers" posted elsewhere in the forum. This got me to a point where each tuner and DVR is locked to each TV, but has brought the inability to reassign tuners and also raised the problem mentioned before with restoring unwanted tuners when a deleted (skipped) event is programmed on the other TV.

Record Plus would in fact be the ideal choice if a default tuner could be set for each TV instead of a single setting to be used by both.

Maybe this is turning into a feature request?

Thanks again for your thoughts.