So, my HR10-250 can do 3 shows at a time?

[Lee L]

So, last night, we fired up the HR10-250 (this one is still on 3.1.5f) to start watching some TV, it was about 8:05- 8:10 PM. The machine is supposed to be recording Amazing Race and The Simpsons at this time, both OTA. When we turn the TV on, an airing of one of the Law and Orders, I believe it was Criminal Intent, is showing on Bravo.

My wife says hey, it is supposed to be recording, what is going on? So, she hits List and it goes to the list and it is indeed recording The Simpsons and Amazing Race. She then hit live TV and it jumped to AR. We went back in and both recordings are complete.

What the heck was going on? Is it that the box is indeed capable of doing 3 things at once, but to lessen problems due to the processor speed / drive, whatever, they just locked it into 2 virtual tuners but somehow it was able to show a satellite program on the screen while 2 OTA programs were recording? Was it the Twilight Zone?

[old7]

Your TiVo was only recording two things, Amazing Race and The Simpsons. What you thought was a third program being recorded was in the "live" buffer, but not live. When you went to the list and back to live that cleared what was left in the live buffer, so Amazing Race was on.

[Markman07]

Actually the the .3 in the 6.3 upgrade was adding a third tuner! Amazing how they can push a new tuner to the box but they have figured it out! :-D

[old7]

Actually the the .3 in the 6.3 upgrade was adding a third tuner! Amazing how they can push a new tuner to the box but they have figured it out! :-D
Technically, the HR10-250 has 4 tuners, 2 sat and 2 OTA, but that still doesn't change anything. They can only record two inputs at a time.

Yes, I saw the smiley, the last thing we need is more unfounded rumors about 6.3. :D

[Lee L]

Your TiVo was only recording two things, Amazing Race and The Simpsons. What you thought was a third program being recorded was in the "live" buffer, but not live. When you went to the list and back to live that cleared what was left in the live buffer, so Amazing Race was on.


That is what I figured. I guess I could go check Bravo's schedule to see when L&O CI was playing Sunday. Certainly a freaky occurence mostly because I thought it was not recording the shows it was supposed to.

[rickaren]

So, last night, we fired up the HR10-250 (this one is still on 3.1.5f) to start watching some TV, it was about 8:05- 8:10 PM. The machine is supposed to be recording Amazing Race and The Simpsons at this time, both OTA. When we turn the TV on, an airing of one of the Law and Orders, I believe it was Criminal Intent, is showing on Bravo.

My wife says hey, it is supposed to be recording, what is going on? So, she hits List and it goes to the list and it is indeed recording The Simpsons and Amazing Race. She then hit live TV and it jumped to AR. We went back in and both recordings are complete.

What the heck was going on? Is it that the box is indeed capable of doing 3 things at once, but to lessen problems due to the processor speed / drive, whatever, they just locked it into 2 virtual tuners but somehow it was able to show a satellite program on the screen while 2 OTA programs were recording? Was it the Twilight Zone?

You can do this on my DISH VIP 622 DVR but not on the D* HR10-250. On the other hand you can not record TWO OTA on the 622 at the same time like the HR10-250.

I do use these options on both but many I suspect don't know what is possible on their DVRs and only find out by mistake.

[slydog75]

Your TiVo was only recording two things, Amazing Race and The Simpsons. What you thought was a third program being recorded was in the "live" buffer, but not live. When you went to the list and back to live that cleared what was left in the live buffer, so Amazing Race was on.


Except that he said it was on Bravo. AR is on CBS (ABC?) and Simpsons is on Fox.. When both tuners changed channels to record these, anything in the buffer from Bravo would have been deleted. My guess is you were in the Twilight Zone (ie.. this was a fluke).

[old7]

Except that he said it was on Bravo. AR is on CBS (ABC?) and Simpsons is on Fox.. When both tuners changed channels to record these, anything in the buffer from Bravo would have been deleted. My guess is you were in the Twilight Zone (ie.. this was a fluke).

If he was watching "live" that would be true, but not if he was watching the buffer. TiVo will let you finish watching what is still in the buffer. Try it.

[TonyD79]

Yes, it will let you finish what is in the buffer.

Set two recordings to start at 8pm. Pause the buffer at 7:45 on a third channel. You can watch the third channel until 8:15 when the buffer runs out.

This give the apperance of watching/recording three things at once, BUT...what is actually happening is that you are watching a show that is prerecorded (only that it is in the buffer not in the Now Playing List).

[Lee L]

OK, I checked and L&O CI was playing on Bravo from 5:00 PM until 11:00 PM, so it could have been buffered. We definitely had not paused Bravo earlier in teh day though as we had not even touched that machine all day until that point.

[willardcpa]

....We definitely had not paused Bravo earlier in teh day though as we had not even touched that machine all day until that point.You could have paused Bravo yesterday. What it would have done then was paused until the buffer "ran out" ie got thirty minutes behind, and then just stayed thirty minutes behind until you did something, or it ended up recording two things at once.

[TomF]

I have seen this many times. On our master bedroom DirecTiVo, we record the 11:00 PM news and also have SPs for Leno and Letterman. When we're getting ready for bed, sometime after 11:00 PM, we back up the news to watch it from the beginning. If we're still watching it when Leno and Letterman come on, we can watch it to the end of the buffer and then it will switch to one of the channels that's recording.

[TyroneShoes]

OK, I checked and L&O CI was playing on Bravo from 5:00 PM until 11:00 PM, so it could have been buffered. We definitely had not paused Bravo earlier in teh day though as we had not even touched that machine all day until that point.
I can be in live TV in the morning, place the HR10 in standby, go to work, come home, take the HR10 out of standby, rewind, and play back the buffer from that morning (assuming nothing records on that tuner in the mean time). I do it regularly.

What that means is that the buffer does not time out while the unit is asleep. The 30-minute countdown clock for the buffer suspends while the HR10 hibernates.