6.2 upgrade weirdness

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After my upgrade a couple of weeks ago I've noticed some weirdness on
my series 2 Huges DVR 40. When I start it up I get random buffer
times. Sometimes there is no buffer and sometime it's the full half
hour on both tuners. Sometimes it just a couple of minutes on both
tuners.
And, recently, if I change to the other tuner and channel change
over the other channel, the buffer gets erased. In other words if I
want to watch a certain channel and have it save the half hour buffer,
then change to the other tuner and channel surf over that channel, the
buffer gets erased on the other tuner. Strange.

Mark P.

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"Mark P." <mmmm@00000.net> wrote in message news:42c538d7.68457326@news.verizon.net...
> After my upgrade a couple of weeks ago I've noticed some weirdness on
> my series 2 Huges DVR 40. When I start it up I get random buffer
> times. Sometimes there is no buffer and sometime it's the full half
> hour on both tuners. Sometimes it just a couple of minutes on both
> tuners.
> And, recently, if I change to the other tuner and channel change
> over the other channel, the buffer gets erased. In other words if I
> want to watch a certain channel and have it save the half hour buffer,
> then change to the other tuner and channel surf over that channel, the
> buffer gets erased on the other tuner. Strange.
>

The buffer content on at least one tuner is likely to be lost overnight.
A nightly service download will clear one buffer as will a scheduled
recording taking place during standby.

When you "surf" to the channel on the "other" tuner, the foreground
tuner is swapped with the background tuner. The "other" tuner will
be on the channel you "surfed to" before the tuners are swapped.

The recent software upgrade didn't cause the described operation.

 

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Mark P. wrote:
> And, recently, if I change to the other tuner and channel change
> over the other channel, the buffer gets erased. In other words if I
> want to watch a certain channel and have it save the half hour buffer,
> then change to the other tuner and channel surf over that channel, the
> buffer gets erased on the other tuner. Strange.

Did you place Tuner #1 on pause before switching to Tuner #2?
That sometimes help let TiVo know that you are interested
in the current buffer.
-Joe

 

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"Joe Smith" <joe@inwap.com> wrote in message news:t4mdnQIy_6ohBVrfRVn-hA@comcast.com...
> Mark P. wrote:
> > And, recently, if I change to the other tuner and channel change
> > over the other channel, the buffer gets erased. In other words if I
> > want to watch a certain channel and have it save the half hour buffer,
> > then change to the other tuner and channel surf over that channel, the
> > buffer gets erased on the other tuner. Strange.
>
> Did you place Tuner #1 on pause before switching to Tuner #2?
> That sometimes help let TiVo know that you are interested
> in the current buffer.

When one "channel surfs" across a buffered channel the buffer is cleared.
It makes no difference which tuner was previously used on that channel.

When you channel surf to a buffered channel, the tuners will be swapped
if the "other" tuner was tuned to the "next" channel.