[barkster99]

New to VOD, downloaded several episodes of Mad Men Season 1. Noticed in List that they all had expiration of 8/10, same day I downloaded them. They also all had the little circle-K (Keep) next to them.

When selecting one for more detail, there was a left-hand nav option for Keep... When selecting that, I had choice between "Expire" or "keep until disk full". If I selected "keep until full", the circle-K was removed from the List, contrary to what I expected.

Hmm, what to do. Decided to leave Keep at "Expire" - which left the circle-K in list. Wrong choice. All were deleted overnight. -- Some questions:

1) Do you think I could have saved them by changing that Keep option?

2) Is the glitch with the circle-K, opposite what it should be, unique to me?

3) Now, when trying again to download those episodes again, the AMC VOD channel still shows Mad Men Season 1 in left-hand nav but shows "no episodes available" when selecting.

New to HR20 a few days ago and having lots of issues, some install related, some actual hardware (I think). Hard telling what's going on. Appreciate any thoughts.

 

[davring]

I noticed the same expiration dates. I started downloading the first episodes of season two because the picture quality was so much better than broadcast, but now they are due to expire. Kind of a pain. I don't think you can keep them if they show an expiration date.

 

[tonyd79]

I just checked and they all say 9/14.

Guess they updated them today. Not sure if you need to redownload or not.

 

[davring]

I just checked and they all say 9/14.

Guess they updated them today. Not sure if you need to redownload or not.

Thanks Tony, I hadn't looked recently.

 

[webshark3]

I had some kids shows (non-PPV) which I marked as KEEP. They were gone as of the expiration date.

 

[tonyd79]

Expiration date overrides all.

 

[davring]

I've been taking anything with a close expiration date and burning them to DVD. If they can make the expiration date work on those, I'll give up...

 

[rolastro]

I've been taking anything with a close expiration date and burning them to DVD. If they can make the expiration date work on those, I'll give up...

What setup do you have that allows you to burn them to DVD? Can you burn with HD quality? That seems to be something I'd be interested in. Thx.

 

[davring]

The best quality you can record is 480i using the S-video out on the back of your receiver. I use a stand alone Toshiba DR410 placed in my entertainment center. The quality is very impressive.

 

[kw2957]

What is the purpose of expiration dates? I think D* should let us keep the VOD recordings in our DVRs. I don't see what the problem is. :nono2:

 

[Blurayfan]

What is the purpose of expiration dates? I think D* should let us keep the VOD recordings in our DVRs. I don't see what the problem is. :nono2:

The expiration is there because of content providers contracts. All Video on Demand services have (available until) expiration dates. The only difference here is DirecTV on Demand requires your DVR to save the content to disk for viewing.