Letterman recording problem

[uptownvideo]

There must be a problem with the Dish provided local channels. I had a tech out yesterday and he has not seen the problem before and thinks that a priority issue, someone in my hosue must be stopping the recording, or a neighbor with the same remote code. It sounds like the technicians are not talking to eachother so the problem gets solved.

 

[jporum]

Yes, I had a problem this past Wednesday for the first time in maybe a couple of months. I no longer record Letterman via the Dish provided feed, however, my recording of Ugly Betty stopped after two minutes. Fortunately I noticed it and was able to record the remainder of the program since it was still in the buffer. Up-was you problem with Letterman?

Bobl, we must have the same taste in TV shows. I've been out of town, and when I got back, I see the Ugly Betty episodes that were recorded (off of the Dish provided ABC station) stopped at 10:02 as well.

This week, I also set up an recording off the OTA ABC station, but unlike the problem we had before with Letterman, this time the OTA also stopped at 10:02.

Good thing Ugly Betty is available to watch on the ABC web site, or I would have missed the episodes.

 

[bobl]

The problem with Ugly Betty occurred again this week at the exact same time (it was OK the past two weeks). Time for another call to Dish Technical Support.

 

[jporum]

I had no problem last night with either of my recordings (one from the Dish feed, one OTA) of Ugly Betty.

 

[uptownvideo]

Three of my recordings were messed up this week. The recordings were all on the Dish provided NBC4 local channel.
Days of Our Lives Monday 1-2 on NBC4 in DC stopped after 11 minutes
Days of Our Lives Wednesday 1-2 on NBC4 in DC stopped after 33 minutes
The Today Show on Wednesday 7-11 on NBC4 started 13 minutes late
I don't know what to do about this problem. It would be nice if Dish would give us the 922 for free.

 

[bobl]

This problem is still occurring. I recorded Ugly Betty this week off of Dish's delivered HD version of KGO. It stopped two minutes into the recording. Since I now watch the progress of this recording I immediately restarted it manually when I saw the red recording light go out. The recording proceeded along fine until about forty minutes into the program when it stopped again. I restarted the recording again and then had to manually stop the recording at the end of the program. I got all of the program but in three pieces. This is the first time a program which stopped in this manner was stopped twice (the program schedule says the first two short recording segments were stopped by user 1 which is untrue). I need to call Dish again regarding this problem. Will post any information I get. Any others still seeing this problem?

 

[uptownvideo]

I called Dish this week and I explained the problem stating the the OTA records fine The rep told me that he will forward it to the engineers. I am not being too hopeful. I think that my locals come off of 61.5, so maybe there is a problem with that?

 

[wj3]

We have been having this problem off and on for several weeks. It usually happens at 10:02 recording either CSI-NY or Ugly Betty. Last night we moved Ugly Betty to the OTA tunner thinking it would be ok. Well at 10:04 it stopped. Luckley we caught it and recorded the rest ok. So dont think you are safe recording from the OTA antenna.

 

[bobl]

Happened to me again this week at 10:02 with Ugly Betty. Had to manually restart the recording so the full program was in two pieces.

 

[mattydork]

i have been having this problem for quite a while with Letterman cutting off at the 29 minute mark. i live in Colorado Springs and record from the Dish supplied local channel on a VIP 612. It is usually only 1 or 2 times per week but is really frustrating. As of last week it was still happening. i haven't tried recording OTA.... maybe i will give that a shot.

 

[jporum]

I was out of town last month, and just returned. I'm seeing the same thing bobl has reported. On 3/10 and last night (3/31) Ugly Betty recorded just find from both the satellite and OTA. However, on 3/17 and 3/24 the satellite recording stopped at 10:02, but the OTA was fine. Also on 3/17 and 3/24, my satellite recording of L&O:SVU also stopped at 10:02. On the other dates it was fine.

 

[bobl]

Yeah, my recording of Ugly Betty was fine this week but had problems the two weeks before.

 

[bobl]

Letterman stopped recording last night at 12:03. This was from KPIX OTA, the first time an OTA recording had this problem. Probably related to the move of the Dish HD feed of KPIX to Echostar 14?

 

[bobl]

Problem wasn't technical-it was guide related. Guide indicated Letterman from 11:35 to 12:00 because of the Echostar 14 transition. I recorded from OTA so the program was still on but the guide info. was wrong so it stopped recording at 12:03 (I add 3 minutes to the end of this recording).