Why don't other PVR do what Replay does???

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John in Detroit wrote:

> Zardoz... I'm kind of tired of you coming here and dis-ing the RTV units
> over and over and over again...
>
> Long before I went shopping I put the feature and ability charts for
> both RTV and Tivo up next to each other... And to be honest it's been a
> while so I don't recall exactly what features (other than IVS, and I
> think I may have an IVS work-around for machines that don't have it)
> affected my decision.
>
> But Replay won, hands down
>
> So..... I'm very happy with my Replays... Even my wife is happy. I do
> not think I'd be nearly as happy with Tivo
>
> Zardoz wrote:
>
>>> While forgetting that the majority of people are of low intelligence
>>> and mental flexibility (or at least have learned to act that way), and
>>> mindlessly follow others.
>>
>>
>>
>> Like those people who say how great RTV is because of streaming video
>> and DVArchive while neglecting the fact that every single other aspect
>> of the machine is inferior to it's biggest competitor's features?
>>
>>
>

 

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"Tony D." <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
>>>If you don't what to do that, you don't create a Theme channel.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't createa theme channel. I created a repeating record of a
>> particular show at a particular time. An upcomming episode is one that I
>> really don't care for at all and since my RTV is still very new and not
>> upgraded with a larger HD yet, I tried to cancel the record of that
>> episode to prevent another show from being automatically deleted any
>> sooner than necessary. It CAN'T be done.
>
> On a Replay channel just go under advanced options and uncheck the day of
> the recording.

Yet another work around because RTV can't do it.

 

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:41:00 -0400, "Tony D." <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>
>>>If you don't what to do that, you don't create a Theme channel.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't createa theme channel. I created a repeating record of a
>> particular show at a particular time. An upcomming episode is one that I
>> really don't care for at all and since my RTV is still very new and not
>> upgraded with a larger HD yet, I tried to cancel the record of that episode
>> to prevent another show from being automatically deleted any sooner than
>> necessary. It CAN'T be done.
>
>On a Replay channel just go under advanced options and uncheck the day
>of the recording.

That cancels ALL recordings made omn that DAY OF THE week. It's a
persistant setting and does not cancel ONLY one thing. Also, it DOES
NOT apply to theme channels, which are much more useful in most cases.

--
Mark Lloyd
has a Replay 5xxx
http/notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"The idea that there is an invisible being who
created and still runs this old universe is so
childish, so obviously contrived, that it is hard to
believe anyone with even a modicum of education can
still fall for that scam."

 

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Mark Lloyd wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:41:00 -0400, "Tony D." <nospam@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>>>If you don't what to do that, you don't create a Theme channel.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I didn't createa theme channel. I created a repeating record of a
>>>particular show at a particular time. An upcomming episode is one that I
>>>really don't care for at all and since my RTV is still very new and not
>>>upgraded with a larger HD yet, I tried to cancel the record of that episode
>>>to prevent another show from being automatically deleted any sooner than
>>>necessary. It CAN'T be done.
>>
>>On a Replay channel just go under advanced options and uncheck the day
>>of the recording.
>
>
> That cancels ALL recordings made omn that DAY OF THE week. It's a
> persistant setting and does not cancel ONLY one thing. Also, it DOES
> NOT apply to theme channels, which are much more useful in most cases.
>

Moron has stated it was not a theme channel and he wanted to temporarily
cancel a recording.

 

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:54:21 -0400, "Tony D." <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>Mark Lloyd wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:41:00 -0400, "Tony D." <nospam@nospam.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>If you don't what to do that, you don't create a Theme channel.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I didn't createa theme channel. I created a repeating record of a
>>>>particular show at a particular time. An upcomming episode is one that I
>>>>really don't care for at all and since my RTV is still very new and not
>>>>upgraded with a larger HD yet, I tried to cancel the record of that episode
>>>>to prevent another show from being automatically deleted any sooner than
>>>>necessary. It CAN'T be done.
>>>
>>>On a Replay channel just go under advanced options and uncheck the day
>>>of the recording.
>>
>>
>> That cancels ALL recordings made omn that DAY OF THE week. It's a
>> persistant setting and does not cancel ONLY one thing. Also, it DOES
>> NOT apply to theme channels, which are much more useful in most cases.
>>
>
>Moron has stated it was not a theme channel and he wanted to temporarily
>cancel a recording.

And you failed to notice most of what I posted. Notice that some of it
was about repeated show-based channels.

--
Mark Lloyd
has a Replay 5xxx
http/notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"The idea that there is an invisible being who
created and still runs this old universe is so
childish, so obviously contrived, that it is hard to
believe anyone with even a modicum of education can
still fall for that scam."

 

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Mark Lloyd wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:09:23 -0400, "Margaret Wilson"
> <twokatmew@nospam.msn.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Yup, I'm with you, John. I did the same, got my first 5040 refurb from DNNA
>>direct. I liked it so well, I snapped up a second one.

In my case it is one 5040 (upgraded) and two 5504's.

I should add that back when I did my research, and decidedn on REPLAY
over TIVO, DVArchive was not something I was aware of, so it in no way
affected the decision... I found out about DVA AFTER I bought the first
unit, and that, was, of course, icing on top of a very nice cake


--
John F Davis, in Delightful Detroit. WA8YXM(at)arrl(dot)net
"Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business"
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Same here. I had no idea DVArchive or other things like RVTools, etc. even
existed. A very pleasant surprise, indeed.

Regards,

Margaret

"John in Detroit" <Blanked@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
>
> Mark Lloyd wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:09:23 -0400, "Margaret Wilson"
>> <twokatmew@nospam.msn.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Yup, I'm with you, John. I did the same, got my first 5040 refurb from
>>>DNNA direct. I liked it so well, I snapped up a second one.
>
> In my case it is one 5040 (upgraded) and two 5504's.
>
> I should add that back when I did my research, and decidedn on REPLAY over
> TIVO, DVArchive was not something I was aware of, so it in no way affected
> the decision... I found out about DVA AFTER I bought the first unit, and
> that, was, of course, icing on top of a very nice cake
>
>
> --
> John F Davis, in Delightful Detroit. WA8YXM(at)arrl(dot)net
> "Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business"
> Diabetic? http/community.compuserve.com/diabetes

 

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Margaret Wilson wrote:
> Unfortunately you'll still see his posts when others reply....

depends, I can Kill any message with the word "Zardoz" in it, this one
inlcuded

--
John F Davis, in Delightful Detroit. WA8YXM(at)arrl(dot)net
"Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business"
Diabetic? http/community.compuserve.com/diabetes

 

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Did you notice that he's now also posting as Zardozz, having added second
"z" on the end. Better add that one too.

Regards,

Margaret

"John in Detroit" <Blanked@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
>
> Margaret Wilson wrote:
>> Unfortunately you'll still see his posts when others reply....
>
> depends, I can Kill any message with the word "Zardoz" in it, this one
> inlcuded
>
> --
> John F Davis, in Delightful Detroit. WA8YXM(at)arrl(dot)net
> "Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business"
> Diabetic? http/community.compuserve.com/diabetes

 

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"Mark Lloyd" <mlloyd@5xxxmail.com5xxx> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> That cancels ALL recordings made omn that DAY OF THE week. It's a
>>> persistant setting and does not cancel ONLY one thing. Also, it DOES
>>> NOT apply to theme channels, which are much more useful in most cases.




>>>
>>
>>Moron has stated it was not a theme channel and he wanted to temporarily
>>cancel a recording.

No, I want to cancel a single recording. There's nothing temporay about it.


>
> And you failed to notice most of what I posted. Notice that some of it
> was about repeated show-based channels.
>

and you are failing to remember that RTV's repeated show-based channel
recordings are limited to recording one show per day at a specifc time (+ -
one time slot) on a specific channel. If I wanted to record "Charmed" on
TNT at 8am and 5pm M-F I'd have to set up two channels if I didn't want to
go the theme route. Or is this information wrong?

 

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> and you are failing to remember that RTV's repeated show-based channel
> recordings are limited to recording one show per day at a specifc time (+ -
> one time slot) on a specific channel. If I wanted to record "Charmed" on
> TNT at 8am and 5pm M-F I'd have to set up two channels if I didn't want to
> go the theme route. Or is this information wrong?

That's correct.

As noted, you could also make a theme channel, but that might record
some channels/time you explicitly never want. Priorities doesn't do
exactly what you want there.

So there is a chance of this: if theme X has an episode that I don't
care to see, but it's priority is higher than Y, then I can't cancel
that specific X show and have Y fall into place.

I agree it would be nice to have a time-ordered (todo) list of all the
things it's going to record. You could then kill off a single episode.
By doing so, it would free up that slot for the next available theme.
Kill the negatives, so to speak. It's basically a nice UI for
prioritized conflict resolutions of episodes, without changing the basic
subscriptions. This maximizes the chance you are recording only you
want to see.

For me, it just doesn't matter; I don't care to babysit it that much.
If there's a show I really do want to see, I just press the red dot in
the channel guide. That overrides everything, and will inform you of a
conflict with other timed shows.

 

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"Al Swearengen" <al_swear@gemsaloon.com> wrote in message
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> back in the 80s with BBS's we used to have similar rants on what was
> better, Atari or Commodore.
> Nice to see nothing has changed in 20+ years.

I used to be pretty handy with the Atari BASIC, back in the day. And when I
traded in my cassette drive for a floppy, baby, that was smokin'.

 

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What was better? Commodore of course, Even Captain Kirk had a 64 it was
so futureristic

(Someone recently posted that in watching one of the ST movies on DVD
with a bunch of Extras, he found the computer on Kirk's desk was a C-64)

pjs wrote:
> "Al Swearengen" <al_swear@gemsaloon.com> wrote in message
> news:1R6we.1416$Ai.275481@news20.bellglobal.com...
>
>>back in the 80s with BBS's we used to have similar rants on what was
>>better, Atari or Commodore.
>>Nice to see nothing has changed in 20+ years.
>
>
> I used to be pretty handy with the Atari BASIC, back in the day. And when I
> traded in my cassette drive for a floppy, baby, that was smokin'.
>
>

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John F Davis, in Delightful Detroit. WA8YXM(at)arrl(dot)net
"Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business"
Diabetic? http/community.compuserve.com/diabetes