I didn't hold back my contempt for the Genie after switching to DTV and unfortunately that pattern is continuing again just once I was resigning to learning to live with this downgrade. Mind you, DTV is great, picture quality is great, channels are great... but the Genie leaves a lot to be desired.
Yes, my old as dirt DC box didn't have 5 tuners but we had 4 between 2 DVRs that all shows were split between. It still did more than Genie does though (except for recommending shows I don't care about) and was not lacking the important features that are pretty standard across the board on other receivers. Nonetheless after a week I'm learning to live with this crippled receiver. Although it does suck for lack of a better word, it can record all of our shows and play them even if it makes life more difficult, so life goes on...
Or does it... because I just realized it doesn't record all of our shows. There is a 100 series limit on the series manager we just found when we couldn't setup any new shows. We have been slowly adding our list from our other boxes, which had no limit. We actually had a few hundred series setup on our oldest DVR alone but only about 120 that were probably not cancelled or we cared to continue recording.
With whole family this thing is about 100 series too little.
We don't watch every single episode of every series. Ex: We record Nova but only watch the topics we are interested in. It is probably like that for more than half of the series we record.
Plus, at any given time only 1/4 of the series are not on break. So 100 series limit is more like 25 active series. That may be enough for one person who watches one or two shows a night, but not 3 or 4.
I figure maybe we could cancel shows when they go on break but who wants to keep a journal and research what dates they start back up for 100 shows on a regular basis so you remember not to miss them next season. That is a non solution for me, but it is typical of the experience so far with Genie where you are forced to find work arounds for things that were a given on other platforms.
I would have never thought there would be a limit as we have never had a device that had a series limit and even had hundreds of series setup that never caused a problem with that antiquated hardware so it is a surprise to find it on this. I don't even think we had one when we had a Tivo way back.
So what are the options to get around it? Can I get a second Genie and leave it hooked up in the closet and get 200 but still manage it all from one receiver, or do I have to setup some on one and some on the other?
Is there a better Genie that has a higher limit?
I'd love to hear there is there some kind of diagnostic mode you can get into and edit parameters to bump this up, but this wishful thinking that any solutions to the shortcoming of this receiver would be that easy to fix.
Yes, my old as dirt DC box didn't have 5 tuners but we had 4 between 2 DVRs that all shows were split between. It still did more than Genie does though (except for recommending shows I don't care about) and was not lacking the important features that are pretty standard across the board on other receivers. Nonetheless after a week I'm learning to live with this crippled receiver. Although it does suck for lack of a better word, it can record all of our shows and play them even if it makes life more difficult, so life goes on...
Or does it... because I just realized it doesn't record all of our shows. There is a 100 series limit on the series manager we just found when we couldn't setup any new shows. We have been slowly adding our list from our other boxes, which had no limit. We actually had a few hundred series setup on our oldest DVR alone but only about 120 that were probably not cancelled or we cared to continue recording.
With whole family this thing is about 100 series too little.
We don't watch every single episode of every series. Ex: We record Nova but only watch the topics we are interested in. It is probably like that for more than half of the series we record.
Plus, at any given time only 1/4 of the series are not on break. So 100 series limit is more like 25 active series. That may be enough for one person who watches one or two shows a night, but not 3 or 4.
I figure maybe we could cancel shows when they go on break but who wants to keep a journal and research what dates they start back up for 100 shows on a regular basis so you remember not to miss them next season. That is a non solution for me, but it is typical of the experience so far with Genie where you are forced to find work arounds for things that were a given on other platforms.
I would have never thought there would be a limit as we have never had a device that had a series limit and even had hundreds of series setup that never caused a problem with that antiquated hardware so it is a surprise to find it on this. I don't even think we had one when we had a Tivo way back.
So what are the options to get around it? Can I get a second Genie and leave it hooked up in the closet and get 200 but still manage it all from one receiver, or do I have to setup some on one and some on the other?
Is there a better Genie that has a higher limit?
I'd love to hear there is there some kind of diagnostic mode you can get into and edit parameters to bump this up, but this wishful thinking that any solutions to the shortcoming of this receiver would be that easy to fix.
