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I just purchased a Bolt OTA to replace my Premiere and I am quite pleased with the new unit so far.
That said, there is one behavior change that seems rather odd to me and I am wondering if there is a setting/workaround that others have found useful.
On the Premiere, which only had two tuners, I found that if I used the guide to change to a channel which was already being recorded, I would get access all the way back to the beginning of the recording. This was preferable to using TiVo->My Shows->etc since it required fewer button presses and it did not involve listing stored programs, which sometimes took a long time.
On the Bolt OTA, which has four tuners, I find that if I use the guide to change to a channel which is already being recorded, the unit will simply (at least sometimes) grab a different tuner and start storing a new stream, meaning I do not have access anything prior to NOW in that stream. Unfortunately, the Bolt OTA is even worse than the Premiere when trying to go the TiVo->My Shows->etc route since in addition to occasionally being slow, it sometimes seems to have a bug which causes it to not function properly at all.
I guess I do not understand the new behavior of the Bolt. I cannot understand why assigning a new tuner and stream would ever make sense when the program is already being recorded. Am I missing something? Or is this simply the type of thing that causes so much ire with the TE4 firmware around here?
That said, there is one behavior change that seems rather odd to me and I am wondering if there is a setting/workaround that others have found useful.
On the Premiere, which only had two tuners, I found that if I used the guide to change to a channel which was already being recorded, I would get access all the way back to the beginning of the recording. This was preferable to using TiVo->My Shows->etc since it required fewer button presses and it did not involve listing stored programs, which sometimes took a long time.
On the Bolt OTA, which has four tuners, I find that if I use the guide to change to a channel which is already being recorded, the unit will simply (at least sometimes) grab a different tuner and start storing a new stream, meaning I do not have access anything prior to NOW in that stream. Unfortunately, the Bolt OTA is even worse than the Premiere when trying to go the TiVo->My Shows->etc route since in addition to occasionally being slow, it sometimes seems to have a bug which causes it to not function properly at all.
I guess I do not understand the new behavior of the Bolt. I cannot understand why assigning a new tuner and stream would ever make sense when the program is already being recorded. Am I missing something? Or is this simply the type of thing that causes so much ire with the TE4 firmware around here?
