For both this DVR and the old Tivos, I have always tried to search first on the team name, and second by the city. I have found that searching by the sport doesn't always work because the guides don't always have the sport in their discription.portmon said:I've had near zero success searching for HD sports content. I've tried keyword HDTV, basketball, football, audio/video type HDTV, show type event/live, and many combos with no matches.
Anyone have a good strategy for finding HD football/basketball games or HD sports events in general? I've been just using the guide manually and parts of my guide info seems to appear/disappear a lot.
Hmmmm...you can save a search? I'll have to try that!! I used to set up Wishlists on my old Tivo. I guess this is the equivalant?bonscott87 said:You can't search on HD, can't on a Tivo either I believe, it's not a "category" to choose.
Basically in your searches just look for stuff on channels in the 70s or 90s or on your locals. Those are the HD channels.
So for example I have a saved search for Red Wings | Sports | Hockey.
I know if any games show up on 79 (HDNET) or on 95 I know it's in HD. Anything else it's not on an HD channel.
Thanks Scott, that's a good one. I can set them up for Nets (basketball) and New York Giants (football) easily enough. But I love HD sports so much (HD sports guide site is great), I like to record any other NFL, NBA, and College Basketball games in HD that look intriguing. And the sports/basketball list was hundreds long and can only scroll 5 at a time! Guess I'll just have to page thru the HD channels in the guide every few days and pick. Unfortunately, the guide is so flaky I have to keep going back and re-doing it (for chs. 95-96 for example.)bonscott87 said:You can't search on HD, can't on a Tivo either I believe, it's not a "category" to choose.
Basically in your searches just look for stuff on channels in the 70s or 90s or on your locals. Those are the HD channels.
So for example I have a saved search for Red Wings | Sports | Hockey.
I know if any games show up on 79 (HDNET) or on 95 I know it's in HD. Anything else it's not on an HD channel.
I don't think you can save them forever, I think it queues up the last 25 or 50 when you look at the list ("recent searches"). I guess I might incorrectly call them a saved search. So what I do is clear out the search list from time to time and only leave the ones I use all the time. So that kind of "saves" them. When you do this you can use the cool as beans mark and delete method so you can mark several searches to delete all at once (just like you can in the My Playlist).Steveknj said:Hmmmm...you can save a search? I'll have to try that!! I used to set up Wishlists on my old Tivo. I guess this is the equivalant?
I hear you on 95 and 96. You can't trust the guide data until perhaps an hour before the event. Unfortunately.portmon said:Thanks Scott, that's a good one. I can set them up for Nets (basketball) and New York Giants (football) easily enough. But I love HD sports so much (HD sports guide site is great), I like to record any other NFL, NBA, and College Basketball games in HD that look intriguing. And the sports/basketball list was hundreds long and can only scroll 5 at a time! Guess I'll just have to page thru the HD channels in the guide every few days and pick. Unfortunately, the guide is so flaky I have to keep going back and re-doing it (for chs. 95-96 for example.)
This works, but just remember to check the ToDo list every day, as these recordings are randomly canceled overnight.bonscott87 said:I hear you on 95 and 96. You can't trust the guide data until perhaps an hour before the event. Unfortunately.
I'll give you another tip though since you like HD sports of just about any kind.
Bring up the guide.
Arrow to the left to highlight the channel number of say HDNet or ESPNHD.
Hit Info button.
This might take 20-30 seconds.
Once it loads it has the entire 2 weeks worth of shows for that channel up on the screen you can scroll through.
Now you can scroll through and one touch record all the HD sports you are interested in (HDNet for example has hockey, soccer and college basketball).
So you could do this every week and a half or so on HDNet, TNTHD, ESPNHD and ESPN2HD and catch all the HD sports available on those channels.
The closest you can get is to do a Category Search for HD Content. There is more info under Category Search in the Tips & Tricks 2.9a. Or do a Category Sort on Football. But you can't do both at once. Sorry.portmon said:I've had near zero success searching for HD sports content. I've tried keyword HDTV, basketball, football, audio/video type HDTV, show type event/live, and many combos with no matches.
Anyone have a good strategy for finding HD football/basketball games or HD sports events in general? I've been just using the guide manually and parts of my guide info seems to appear/disappear a lot.
Not sure what you're talking about unless you mean on 95 where the guide data is wonky sometimes. I've never had a single game canceled in the 4 months I've had the HR20.islesfan said:This works, but just remember to check the ToDo list every day, as these recordings are randomly canceled overnight.
On the HR10, you can use HDTV as a category for wishlists -- I do it. On the Tivo Series 3, you cannot.bonscott87 said:You can't search on HD, can't on a Tivo either I believe, it's not a "category" to choose.
On my HR20, I've had a few games on the sports packages canceled, as islesfan describes. No rhyme or reason to why that I could see (and it hasn't happened to me yet w/ 10b).bonscott87 said:Not sure what you're talking about unless you mean on 95 where the guide data is wonky sometimes. I've never had a single game canceled in the 4 months I've had the HR20.
