Clashing overlaps

[ColH]

Originally Posted by TehTech

Anyone would have thought that if you have 2 consecutive programs recording on the same channel that the V+ box would regognise this and just extend the first program until the end of the second program, or is this far too complicated for the V+ box AND software developers?

I agree - that would definitely be the smart option. It should be no major thing for software (or developers) to figure out.

I have now tried to see if the V+ will record three concurrent programs when in Standby.

My observation is that it CANNOT. I am in an exTelewest area and accept that others may observe different behaviour.

If you try to set three to record concurrently OUTWITH Series Links, the software will not allow you to set the third recording. It states that you need to cancel one of the two other records first.

You can get it to set three concurrent Series Links but, of course, one is set as a clash, presumeably the one with the lowest priority as set in the options.

When you then place the V+ in Standby, only two record at the appointed time and the other is reported as Failed.

Conclusion - the V+ with the current level of code in an exTelewest area CANNOT concurrently record three channels, even in Standby.

I do accept that the hardware is capable of recording three channels (after all, it is effectively doing so when you record two and watch either Live TV or Delay TV) but Virgin Media would need to enable this in their software.

Others experiences would be interesting as there MAY be local differences between software capabilities.

[Paranoimia]

Originally Posted by grabbi

You mean remove the padding from the end of the first and the begining of the second? I wouldnt want to have one recording contain two programs. What of you wanna put it on a DVD? watching the second program means you have to FF through the first?

Any decent DVD recorder with a hard drive will let you split a single recording into pieces before burning to DVD. I often copy 2 or 3 programmes from the V+ to my recorder in one go, then split them into separate items.

On the subject of recording 2 or 3 programmes - when I had an SDTV, and the output of the 'Copy to VCR/DVD' SCART was active, I just used it to record the output of the channel I was watching - easy!

I've read elsewhere on these forums that a planned update will restore the output of the 'Copy' SCART even when using HDMI... I can't wait for that!