Toggling between channels

[droopdog7]

I have a question about my Tivo R10. I was under the impression that the 30 minute buffer would run on the two channels I am toggling back and forth between. It seems that this is not the case. Most of the time, my Tivo seems to keep the 30 minute buffer on some third channel. Sometimes it is the last channel that I recorded on, sometime it is not. Anyway, when I toggle back and forth between two other channels, I lose the buffer. Annoying as can be. Is this the way these things are designed or is there a problem with my receiver. Better yet, can this be corrected. Thanks.

[JimSpence]

If you are using the enter button or live TV this can cause the loss of a BUFFER. The best way to preserve the buffers is to use the down arrow button.

[sven_kirk]

Hit "pause," then "live tv".
Watch till your delight (for up to 30 minutes).
Then repeat to watch the other "tuner", if you want to continue to watch what you were viewing.

But once you change the actual "channel", the buffer will be lost.

You will learn the tricks of the system while fiddling with it.

[droopdog7]

Thanks for the quick responses. "Live TV" toggles you back and forth between two channels correct? My problem is that the Tivo seems to always set the buffer on one channel and I can't seem to get the buffer off that channel. Often, the buffer is set to channels that I don't even watch. So if I buffer back and forth using the Live TV button, won't it send me to that channel. Or, are you saying that using the pause button will remove the buffer from one that the Tivo set and toggle back and forth between the two channels I watched most recently? Thanks again.

[doconeill]

There are two very different functions at play here:

- Toggling between two tuners
- Flipping between the current channel and the previous channel tuned

Going to the previous channel uses the CURRENT tuner - so if you do that, you lose the buffer because you are actually changing channels on the tuner. You go the last channel by hitting the "enter" key.

Flipping between the tuners is done via hitting either the down arrow or the "Live TV" button (on newer remotes only I think, where it is separate from the Guide button). This would preserve the buffer on both tuners.

One exception is if the previous channel is already tuned on the other tuner, it will change tuners instead.