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| Thread ID: 81686 | 2007-08-03 20:01:00 | MySky Recording | Bantu (52) | PC World Chat |
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| 576266 | 2007-08-03 20:01:00 | I have had MySky for about a year. Recording programs when Start and End time is set to Automatic often cuts the last part off a recorded program. I set end time to add 10 minutes which is fine if I am recording the following program as well as current one on the same channel. If it is set to record say Channel 2 7.30-10.30 that takes care of one recording. If the second record is set to Channel 3 7.30 - 8.30 then Sky Movies 8.30 - 10.30 then it will chop the end off the Channel 3 recording. Anyone found a way around this? I have heard of others that have the same problem. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 576267 | 2007-08-24 08:26:00 | It sounds like you're expecting it to record three channels at the one time, when all it can do is two. | Chris Slater (12626) | ||
| 576268 | 2007-08-24 08:52:00 | It sounds like you're expecting it to record three channels at the one time, when all it can do is two. Exactly. It only has two tuners which means it can only record or record one and watch one at the same time. You can record two channels at the same time while watching something you have al ready recorded though... |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 576269 | 2007-08-24 21:06:00 | No, not really. If the Guide says; TV1 - 7.30 to 8.30 TV2 - 7.30 to 8.30 Then maybe Prime - 8.30 to 9.30 Sky Movies 8.30 to 9.30 That is recording 2 channels at a time but switching channels at the 8.30 mark In order for it to change from the end of the 8.30 finish to the start of the 8.30 on the next recording it will chop off start and end of each. In theory if everything started and ended on time if should jump from one to another without missing a frame. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 576270 | 2007-08-24 21:27:00 | Well yes actually... You are wanting to record TV1 - 7.30 to 8.30 TV2 - 7.30 to 8.30 but you have it set to record 10 mins after each program, so that means TV1 - 7.30 to 8.40 TV2 - 7.30 to 8.40 and (assuming you have not set it to record earlier at the start) Prime - 8.30 to 9.30 Sky Movies 8.30 to 9.30, there is a conflict between 8.30 and 8.40 where it is programed to record more than 2 channels... So if defaults to the nomal times so as you don't miss the start of the 8.30 shows... So yes, you are trying to record more than two channels and no there is not a way around it. |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 576271 | 2007-08-24 21:37:00 | When I first heard about MySky I thought that they would transmit some sort of marker for the start and ending of a program. So if you set it to record your Mysky decoder would detect the marker for the start of the program and start recording. Then at the end it would detect the end marker and stop recording. That way if the program ever started early or late and finished early or late you wouldn't miss any thing and you wouldn't get an extra 5 mins or whatever at the start or the end of the program. Is this even prossible?? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 576272 | 2007-08-24 21:49:00 | It is only set to +10 minutes because Automatic setting was chopping off the end of a lot of recordings, not just the ones that were to be recorded on a different channel next. Automatic setting does not allow enough for anything that runs overtime. As CYaBro says I would have expected it to have some sort of thing built in to syncronise with Sky's Listing. The fact that some programs run overtime does tend to upset recording times I guess. Maybe somthing they will fix in the future. It gets frequent software updates so maybe it is something that can be fixed one day. Overall it is a great toy and I would not like to go back to a plain old digital sky decoder. |
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