Me too. I usually start sometime between 7:33 and 10:13. I am usually done around midnight unless the recording I am watching hasn't finished yet. Like last night I chose Chicago PD, but when the announced it was in conjunction with Law and Order, which we hadn't seen yet, I switched to Scandal. I can watch L&O and Chicago, tonight.
Anyone else turn off PTA?
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We leave PTAT enabled except for Saturdays. Does not cause any conflicts and is great backup in case you forgot about new shows or a special and did not set a timer. For us, there is no reason not to use it.
I use PTAT all the time. Never have an issue with recording other shows. Is there a way to automatically schedule which days to have PTAT run? Or you manually have to turn it on and off?
So you turn it off Saturdays, why? You have multiple shows you want to record that are not on major networks on Saturday night?
Mainly due to the fact that there is little or no original programming on the Big Four on Saturday nights...
When you turned on PTAT the first time, you pick (I thought). Otherwise, and you have to do this outside of 8pm to 11pm, go to Menu, Settings, DVR Defaults, then PTAT.
Ever since December 6th, 2013 both my Hoppers no longer save any programs recorded through PrimeTime Anytime with any GB size. Once recorded and moved onto the Hopper, viewing them with Edit shows the File Size as 0 GB. The recordings are there and fully playable and take up space but since they appear to lack size, an External Hard Drive doesn't see them. I have discovered that if you Save the recordings to your Hopper and don't delete them and are patient, in about a month, eventually they will acquire GB size again, but it's terribly inconvenient to record a night's worth of shows that will all save this way.
Until this started happening I used to find the feature convenient because when active, it was a guaranteed way to never miss anything that aired every evening on the big four channels (such as specials or new shows you weren't aware of until it would have been too late) -- it was already all being recorded to pick through and delete or save later. I actually got introduced to some shows on some networks which I wouldn't have normally caught since everything is on at the same time.
Even without PrimeTime Anytime active, I still enjoy the benefits of being able to watch all four channels and record multiple shows from three networks at the same time all on a single tuner. I just have to take a more hands on approach when it comes to recording until this issue is fixed.
Until this started happening I used to find the feature convenient because when active, it was a guaranteed way to never miss anything that aired every evening on the big four channels (such as specials or new shows you weren't aware of until it would have been too late) -- it was already all being recorded to pick through and delete or save later. I actually got introduced to some shows on some networks which I wouldn't have normally caught since everything is on at the same time.
Even without PrimeTime Anytime active, I still enjoy the benefits of being able to watch all four channels and record multiple shows from three networks at the same time all on a single tuner. I just have to take a more hands on approach when it comes to recording until this issue is fixed.
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Just change the PTAT setting that controls when the shows are deleted to the minimum of 2 days instead of eight.
Ran into something interesting with enabling PTAT... We were at my brother's on Sunday and he was talking to my 12-year old daughter about Dish and the "Hoppah" and she mentioned AutoHop and how to use it. Turns out they turned PTAT off shortly after getting their Hopper because his wife couldn't watch TV in the bedroom (taking up tuners - I suspect now it is a "user" error).
Anyway, I enabled PTAT and in his "My Recordings" folder, anything recorded during PTAT times now shows a kangaroo icon. These were shows recorded days or maybe weeks prior (they were near the end of his recordings list, sorted by date). So, even if you don't have PTAT enabled, the receiver still downloads the "file" that tells the Hopper how/when to skip commercials and will apply it retroactively !
Anyway, I enabled PTAT and in his "My Recordings" folder, anything recorded during PTAT times now shows a kangaroo icon. These were shows recorded days or maybe weeks prior (they were near the end of his recordings list, sorted by date). So, even if you don't have PTAT enabled, the receiver still downloads the "file" that tells the Hopper how/when to skip commercials and will apply it retroactively !
It's probably just easier programmaticly to just send the AutoHop data to everyone instead of selectively sending it to people who don't have it disabled. Because you never know when a customer might want to turn it back on again and besides it's not like it takes up any space or anything.
I was surprised too when I learned that you can record the big 4 Networks anytime with just one tuner, PTAT turned on or off. Nice to have that capability.
