renardg
11-11-02, 01:00 PM
Here is a bug that I haven't seen on the forums. My wife has replicated this twice in the last week. Here is the method.
My wife is watching something that she has a weekly timer setup for and she is watching it slightly delayed. In this case she was watching Charmed about 20 mins behind. We have another weekly timer setup for Angel, which comes on right after Charmed on the same channel. Sometime during the show she hits stop, and the recording stops. She is worried that the timer for Angel won't start because she is not sure if Angel has already started since she is watching Charmed time delayed, so she hits the record button to start a manual record, the kind with no end. Well the time comes when Angel should start recording and the box has already been told to record and something weird happens when the Angel timer tries to fire. Now while watching Angel we have no PVR functions, the box doesn't respond to any buttons commands from the remote, and the only thing you can do is hold down the power button to reset the unit. The box goes through a reset, turns itself back on and says "Acquiring Satellite Signal" , then goes back to normal, thankfully with the programs still recorded, since I hadn't seen them yet.
Anyone else seen this, and who in the technical department do I email so they can fix it, it's pretty easy to duplicate?
Sorry for the long post, if something is not clear let me know and I will try to clarify. I will also do some more experimenting to see if you have to be watching the show time delayed, or if it is just the fact that a manual record command overlaps a programmed timer.
My wife is watching something that she has a weekly timer setup for and she is watching it slightly delayed. In this case she was watching Charmed about 20 mins behind. We have another weekly timer setup for Angel, which comes on right after Charmed on the same channel. Sometime during the show she hits stop, and the recording stops. She is worried that the timer for Angel won't start because she is not sure if Angel has already started since she is watching Charmed time delayed, so she hits the record button to start a manual record, the kind with no end. Well the time comes when Angel should start recording and the box has already been told to record and something weird happens when the Angel timer tries to fire. Now while watching Angel we have no PVR functions, the box doesn't respond to any buttons commands from the remote, and the only thing you can do is hold down the power button to reset the unit. The box goes through a reset, turns itself back on and says "Acquiring Satellite Signal" , then goes back to normal, thankfully with the programs still recorded, since I hadn't seen them yet.
Anyone else seen this, and who in the technical department do I email so they can fix it, it's pretty easy to duplicate?
Sorry for the long post, if something is not clear let me know and I will try to clarify. I will also do some more experimenting to see if you have to be watching the show time delayed, or if it is just the fact that a manual record command overlaps a programmed timer.