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When recording a show, hitting the record button again, either accidentally or intentionally *should* bring up a confirmation prompt to "stop recording" rather than automatically toggling to stop recording.
Last night, I was watching "Flip This House" on A&E and about 20 minutes in, I accidentally hit the record button, so it stopped recording. I immediately realized it, so I tried to go watch the live buffer - and go back to the beginning. It seemed to hang the stream everytime I tried to rewind, 6 second rewind, or even pause the live stream. It felt like a few blocks in the MPEG stream had gotten lost. The only way to get a picture moving again was to change channels and then come back, which of course lost the live buffer.
This is with 10B BTW. Further, I had a bum recording of a show from yesterday morning after the Santa update. It was a 30 minute show from an SD channel that showed "29 minutes" in the list, but would not play.
I wish DTV would focus on the stability of the basic DVR functions like these bad recordings which have been reported consistantly. I actually like the HR20 and it has potential, but it needs to record and playback flawlessly - everytime. I'd rather see this before we see things like the Viiv interface... nice, but is it the primary function of the DVR?
Last night, I was watching "Flip This House" on A&E and about 20 minutes in, I accidentally hit the record button, so it stopped recording. I immediately realized it, so I tried to go watch the live buffer - and go back to the beginning. It seemed to hang the stream everytime I tried to rewind, 6 second rewind, or even pause the live stream. It felt like a few blocks in the MPEG stream had gotten lost. The only way to get a picture moving again was to change channels and then come back, which of course lost the live buffer.
This is with 10B BTW. Further, I had a bum recording of a show from yesterday morning after the Santa update. It was a 30 minute show from an SD channel that showed "29 minutes" in the list, but would not play.
I wish DTV would focus on the stability of the basic DVR functions like these bad recordings which have been reported consistantly. I actually like the HR20 and it has potential, but it needs to record and playback flawlessly - everytime. I'd rather see this before we see things like the Viiv interface... nice, but is it the primary function of the DVR?