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Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha
For anyone who's still not clear on the padding/recording priority, this is how I believe it works currently with 2 tuners.
We'll assume we are recording 2 shows at 21.00 with 5 mins padding on each. If a recording is scheduled at 22.00 then there are two possibilities.
a) If the 22.00 recording is a higher priority than either of the 21.00 shows then it will clip the padding off one of the 21.00 shows
b) If the 22.00 recording is a lower priority than both 21.00 shows then the recording will not start until 22.05
Recording priority seems to be:
1. One-off recordings
2. Series links (in order specified in series link management menu)
3. Tivo Suggestions
Suggestions get 10mins auto padding on stop time. Everything else you have to set.
With 3 recordable tuners it should be fairly unusual to get a problem, fingers crossed.
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Thanks for that information, however what happens if the 22.00 recording is of the same priority? Does the padding gets cut off and the 22.00 recording starts on time and not 5 minutes later.
The reason I ask this is that we set up virtually all of our recordings as series links so that would create this scenario of the 3 recordings you have with the same priority. On V+ the padding is simply cut off the end of the 21.00 recording to allow the 22.00 recording to start on time. In fact what is the point of recording anything with the first 5 minutes missing unless there is an absolute priority for the previous recording?
I hope the answer is for recording clashes where the priority is the same for the padding to be cut off the 21.00 recording to allow the 22.00 recording of same priority to start at 22.00 i.e. padding only stays on a 21.00 recording if it is at a higher priority than the 22.00 recording, not if the priority is the same.
The other factor is that we regularly watch live TV while recording 2 other programmes on other channels. So in this case it seems that if you are watching live TV when 3 tuners are activated later this month, only 2 tuners are available for recording for your scenario so the clash will happen more often than you think. However, in this situation, just cutting off the 5 minutes padding is best since most of the time programmes complete on time but a delay of recording for the 22.00 programme is almost 100% going to mean missing the start of the programme.
However, I believe a new feature Tivo has is that if you happen to be watching a previous recording, Tivo will use 3 tuners to record your 3 21.00 and 1 22.00 programme including padding overlap on the 2 21.00 programmes. I thought a tuner was required to watch a programme even recorded but must be wrong, not technical enough to know! However, I’m not sure what happens though if you just happen to finish watching your recording during the 5 minute overlap, guess it would notify you with an alert that Tivo would have to stop recording a programme (must be the 5 minute padding of one of the 21.00 programmes not the start of the 22.00 programme, assuming same priority for all 3) for you to decide?
Finally, the V+ has the option for you to set priority between planned series, planned programmes and manual recordings, where you have to set a priority. Does Tivo offer you any more options, how about disabling priority at all? The fact that it is a series or planned programme does not dictate priority to what we want to watch, so just wondering if it is possible to set the same priority for anything planned and then if padding is cut off for any clashes or planned/series recording with the same priority, that would be fine with me!