[koenfucius]

I've got the V+ box set to record 2 minutes before, and until 5 minutes after the scheduled time. Most of the time it does this fine, but annoyingly sometimes it doesn't.

I know that overlapping recordings might be a cause of the problem.

However, often that is not at play. A recent example: I wanted it to record two consecutive episodes of Ice Road Truckers on History, for example - nothing else planned to record at the time, just 0:00-1:00 and 1:00-2:00. I would have expected two of the tuners to be able to do this independently, i.e. tuner 1 23:58-1:05, and tuner 2 0:58-2:05, yet what was actually recorded was just one hour in each case.

Another example: Eastenders - both on BBC1 and BBC3, nothing else planned, and in both cases again just the scheduled time.

I have reset the box a few times already in the last few weeks, and the phenomenon persists.

Is there a trick to make sure the box always sticks to the extended times (when possible)?

Thanks!