Directv Tivo questions

[Guest]

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Jack Ak (akjack@excite.com) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
> The same channel does occasionally get buffered on both tuners.
> You are left to figure out how this can happen without a power reset,
> a menu item restart, or the satellite signal test.

Pad the end of "The West Wing" by 1 minute and record "Law & Order" as well.

Any back-to-back programs on the same channel with any overlap will result
in both tuners on the same channel for at least a while.

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[seth]

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"DanR" <dhr22@sorrynospm.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yea, that makes sense but sounds like poor engineering in that I have no
> control
> over which channels will be buffered. I know of no way to choose which
> tuner to
> use.

It's not poor engineering, it's by design.

Down arrow to swap tuners. Set each tuner to the channel you want buffered
and change tuners to move back and forth. Now you have the control you
seek.

But you may find that, like many of us, that buffering becomes an almost
non-issue as you may start to watch all shows from recordings and LiveTV may
become a thing of the past.

 

[seth]

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"Sean" <none> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:15:39 -0400, "Randy S."
> <rswittNO@SPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't have a Directivo w/ dual tuners, but
>
> But Randy is going to spew some gibberrish anyway.
>
> Thanks a lot Randy, you're a big help.

Actually he was a help. The info he gave was correct.

 

[seth]

Archived from groups: alt.video.ptv.tivo (More info?)

"DanR" <dhr22@sorrynospm.com> wrote in message
news:Fkj9e.507$%L1.81@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>
> Yea, that makes sense but sounds like poor engineering in that I have no
> control
> over which channels will be buffered. I know of no way to choose which
> tuner to
> use.

It's not poor engineering, it's by design.

Down arrow to swap tuners. Set each tuner to the channel you want buffered
and change tuners to move back and forth. Now you have the control you
seek.

But you may find that, like many of us, that buffering becomes an almost
non-issue as you may start to watch all shows from recordings and LiveTV may
become a thing of the past.