ON Home I have set up both my 7100's to record repeated daily/weekly kids programs. For some reason some record fine, others record for just 1 minute (mostly at night). Always 1 minute - never more or less. Anyone else experience this ?
If this is happening on recordings to your hard drive (using PTV), this has been reported by other users. It seems to be a bug related to the daily EPG download that happens overnight.
Running the DishPlayer diagnostics seems to fix this. After running the diagnostic, turn off the DP and turn it back on. That will fix the "December 31st, 1 minute" problem. Someone reported this to the group, and it also fixed mine.
However, if you're having this problem when using a VCR, it may be the following OTR (One Touch Record) bug that afflicts many devices that use an IR blaster to trigger your VCR's record function.
It's not your Dishplayer, it's your VCR. Many VCRs go into OTR mode if the "record" IR command is held too long. When no additional "record" commands arrive, the VCR times out after a minute and stops.
See if your VCR has a menu option to disable OTR from the remote or completely. If not, you might want to tell the Dishplayer to try some other remote codes, perhaps one of them will not trigger the OTR mode.
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