Speculation -- and if anyone, Vivek can confirm this -- is that the ability to do this is restricted by someone else's patent.
Multiple tuners used to record back to back shows on same channel
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If true, then that is where I think patent law is way too overreaching. But I digress.
I don't buy that reasoning as Dish already uses a mechanism to record an entire transponder (or selected channels of that transponder) for an extended block of time to parse out individual programs. They could feasibly use that technology to extend it to a single channel that has a back-to-back timer set.
I don't buy that reasoning as Dish already uses a mechanism to record an entire transponder (or selected channels of that transponder) for an extended block of time to parse out individual programs. They could feasibly use that technology to extend it to a single channel that has a back-to-back timer set.
Yes, it certainly can be, but at the moment, it is what it is....
I don't think the recording part is the possible issue, it's the cutting up of the overlapping video parts that's in question.
But that would result in hard cuts with potentially cut off content. People don't want that. They want the overlap to end up on both recordings. If people didn't mind the hard cut, they would set start early and end late to zero and avoid the use of two tuners to begin with.
They do that because there used to be 5 minutes of commercials at the end of the shows, and based on research people would then channel surf.
So now what they do is have longer commercial breaks and run shows back to back to get you interested enough in the next program to prevent you from wanting to change the channel.
I never said the pointers would be set at hard cuts. Whatever your start early, end late settings are would determine where the start and end pointers would be for each program. So you would have 1 physical file with 2 listings in the DVR that would show the extended run times for each logical program.
I noticed this when my kid had timers to record Walking Dead Sunday night and then Talking Dead right after. The shows hijack 2 tuners for those 4 minutes and if something else is recording you can't watch anything else. If you're watching something when this happens you miss the end of it when it breaks away to record the underlap of the second show. The only other choice is to cancel the second recording and we don't want to start that kind of trouble just to see the reveal on Property Brothers!
That's what PTAT seems to do too, sorta... About the only thing I watch from PTAT is Big Bang Theory and when it is over, I can also watch the show after it (830-900), the 9pm event, and 10pm event. This is even the case with a "Save Series" timer/recording (which is what BBT is for us).
well, my solution for this is issue is just set up the program manually, as in if you want to record say example The Simpsons and Brooklyn Nine-Nine back to back on your local FOX Station, just set up an manual recording which you can set it up by pressing the DVR button on the remote 4 times, then press the green button on remote when you get to the timers menu screen, and then you should know the rest.
Yes ,but the ending of the second show isn't that big of a deal. It is the ending of the actual episode I care about.Yeah, with a hard cut at the end of the 2nd show.
Not by the official definition. But, if it is a negative attribute that is considered major annoyance by a lot of users, then it is a bug in spirit. Perhaps, another term can be used, like "pest".
I just upgraded the DirecTV system at work. And, that SWM is awesome. Beats the hell outta the Dish wiring schema.
I still prefer my Hopper/Joey, though.
A lot of work to workaround a pest that shouldn't exist in the first place.
3 tuners. One can record all 4 big networks at a time with PTAT, leaving two additional. So, 6 shows at a time if 4 are on the nets. Add another tuner with OTA adapter.
