Cable Forum - View Single Post

Perfect Choice · 22-03-2011, 16:17

Not sure if I have seen anybody post something like this before, but interested how Tivo handles this situation.

If Tivo is recording 3 programmes at the same time while you are watching a recording, if you come to the end of that recording and want to go back to live TV, Tivo needs to cancel one of the recordings for which you are prompted I believe.

However, does Tivo then search for a repeat of the recording it has to cancel in order to reschedule that recording, or do you just get the original recording but cut short if you decide to go back to live TV?

The reason I ask this is that I can see this happening for me as the extra flexibility you now have in permitting 3 recordings at the same time now creates this issue, while V+ couldn’t do this, so never an issue of needing to free up a tuner to go back to live TV.

I tend to set up a good deal of series recordings so will be letting Tivo decide on the specific programme timing. It is common for us to be watching a different channel in live TV to recordings especially at 9pm when more adult content programmes start but the children may have not gone to bed yet (often happens for us!).

This could mean Tivo selects 3 recordings all starting at 9pm say by default rather than 2 at 9pm and say a 3rd on a +1 channel at 10pm. So if you are watching live TV and 9pm comes up, I assume Tivo gives you a message to decide if you want to cancel a recording, but being a series recording I would rather want Tivo to tell me it has rescheduled one of the current recordings (to a +1 channel time say), rather than just cancel an individual episode of a series recording which you would clearly want to watch.

It’s almost as if you want to reserve a tuner for live TV and only use 3 if you know you are not going to watch anything. Extra flexibility of 3 tuners including the one that would be used for live TV is welcomed and very nice, it’s just working out the consequences here that I’m thinking of.

I don’t have Tivo yet and patiently waiting the call/email now. So if anybody who has Tivo can explain or do a test recording of 3 programmes at the same time to see how it behaves when you want to watch live TV it would be appreciated.

22-03-2011, 16:17	#4878
Perfect Choice cf.geek Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Nottingham Services: Maxit TV, M phone, 200MB BB, V6 TIVO, Super Hub3 Posts: 701	Re: TiVo Not sure if I have seen anybody post something like this before, but interested how Tivo handles this situation. If Tivo is recording 3 programmes at the same time while you are watching a recording, if you come to the end of that recording and want to go back to live TV, Tivo needs to cancel one of the recordings for which you are prompted I believe. However, does Tivo then search for a repeat of the recording it has to cancel in order to reschedule that recording, or do you just get the original recording but cut short if you decide to go back to live TV? The reason I ask this is that I can see this happening for me as the extra flexibility you now have in permitting 3 recordings at the same time now creates this issue, while V+ couldn’t do this, so never an issue of needing to free up a tuner to go back to live TV. I tend to set up a good deal of series recordings so will be letting Tivo decide on the specific programme timing. It is common for us to be watching a different channel in live TV to recordings especially at 9pm when more adult content programmes start but the children may have not gone to bed yet (often happens for us!). This could mean Tivo selects 3 recordings all starting at 9pm say by default rather than 2 at 9pm and say a 3rd on a +1 channel at 10pm. So if you are watching live TV and 9pm comes up, I assume Tivo gives you a message to decide if you want to cancel a recording, but being a series recording I would rather want Tivo to tell me it has rescheduled one of the current recordings (to a +1 channel time say), rather than just cancel an individual episode of a series recording which you would clearly want to watch. It’s almost as if you want to reserve a tuner for live TV and only use 3 if you know you are not going to watch anything. Extra flexibility of 3 tuners including the one that would be used for live TV is welcomed and very nice, it’s just working out the consequences here that I’m thinking of. I don’t have Tivo yet and patiently waiting the call/email now. So if anybody who has Tivo can explain or do a test recording of 3 programmes at the same time to see how it behaves when you want to watch live TV it would be appreciated.