Recording time start and finish

[garry1]

Guys, just wondering, if you record a programme dose it start a couple of minutes before the start and a few minutes after? Say a programme starts at 8.00pm will the recording start at 7.58pm and finish at 8.32pm, as you know some channels start and finish programmes early. Thanks

[Graham M]

I beleive, im not 100% sure but I beleive it will adjust itself to when the program actually starts

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by garry1

Guys, just wondering, if you record a programme dose it start a couple of minutes before the start and a few minutes after? Say a programme starts at 8.00pm will the recording start at 7.58pm and finish at 8.32pm, as you know some channels start and finish programmes early. Thanks

It doesn't adjust the recording time automatically.

But there's an option in the V+Recordings >>> V+ Extras menu to extend your recordings. You can use this to add additional recording time before and after any recordings.

[garry1]

So dose that mean you can set a time in the system for say, two minutes at the start, five minutes at the end, and this will stay no matter what you record?

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by garry1

So dose that mean you can set a time in the system for say, two minutes at the start, five minutes at the end, and this will stay no matter what you record?

Yep.

[garry1]

Fantastic getting mine on Tuesday, can't wait.

[JG3870]

Originally Posted by garry1

So dose that mean you can set a time in the system for say, two minutes at the start, five minutes at the end, and this will stay no matter what you record?

This is correct and when you set up the "padding" it will record 2 mins before the start and 5 mins at the end, however there are occasions that the "padding" is dropped to facilitate recordings that would otherwise cause a programme clash.

For example

20:30-21:00 BBC1
21:00-21:30 Sky One
21:00-22:00 Living TV

The recording of the BBC1 programme if it still had the padding would record until 21:05 thus preventing one of the programmes scheduled at 21:00 to be recorded, so the box cleverly drops the padding from the BBC1 programme so it will finish recording at 21:00 at which point the 2 scheduled programmes at 21:00 will start recording without the "padding".

You are ok if there is 2 programmes set to record at the same time with no other planned recording overlapping those times it will record the padding for both programmes

[garry1]

This is getting better.