And another question...
Last night while I was watching the NCAAW Tournament, my DVR (spiffy new box) realized that it was time to record Nova. So it presented me with a message on the screen, which said (this is the gist of it, I didn't write it down):
Your recorded program is scheduled to begin. Do you want to:WTF? I mean, really. Who are these guys who designed a system for recording television and didn't realize that virtually every time the answer was going to be
Switch channels to the program to be recorded?
Stay on this channel and cancel recording?
Stay on this channel and record the other one??!?!?!
(As far as I can tell, what I did is the only option: change channels and then change back. I dunno, maybe I should do a test with a program I don't care about and see what happens if I don't select an option. Maybe that's the default and the others are just "other choices"? But I didn't want to gamble with Nova's Titan program!)
Labels: media, miscellaneous
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At 10:33 PM, April 02, 2008
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 8:31 PM, April 03, 2008
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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Right, so...
I presume you have a DVR with two tuners, which is the only case in which the option you want is available at all.
I have a TiVo brand DVR, and it will only present me with the "I need to change the channel now" message if it has to. My setup allows the TiVo to record off the cable directly (no cable box) and off the cable box. That means I can do the following:
1. Record/watch two programs that don't require the cable box.
2. Record/watch one program that requires the cable box and one that doesn't.
So the question will be asked if
A. I am watching something that requires the cable box and the TiVo needs to record using the cable box. It has to switch the channel on the cable box, and it can't let me watch one and record the other at the same time.
B. I am watching one program and it's recording another, and it needs to make a second recording at the same time. It only has two tuners.
In either of those cases, if I let it start recording and then change the channel, it will warn me that I'll lose the recording if I do that. If I agree, it will stop recording. (I actually have another option -- I can switch to the TV (without the TiVo) and watch a non-cable channel directly, regardless of what's being recorded. But then, of course, I don't have the TiVo's functions.)
If your DVR really does complain at you unnecessarily, it has a programming error. Report it.
I do, although in my case the dvr IS the cable box. And it did in fact record the game and Nova, both - the game on 26 and Nova on 22. Which is why, on second thought, I wonder if I have the option to select neither of the choices it gave me, just do nothing, and have it record channel 22 while I watch 26 and it records 26.
Like I said, I'll have to pick a show I don't care about and try the experiment.
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