New to Dish, PTAT question.

[ryanvan]

I am new to Dish (install on the 29th) came from DTV.

On the Genie we can schedule to record a whole season of a show. Let's say Amazing Race for example. That is on CBS. As I understand it PTAT would record that show automatically. However, it will only save that show for 8 days...right? What if I wait past 8 days, it's gone?

So my question: Can I still create a season recording of The Amazing Race and have several shows waiting for me to watch? Or since it's a Primetime network, I can only record it with PTAT?

2nd Question: When a show is recorded via PTAT, it's not available to watch and skip the commercials for 24 hours? I read that somewhere. That seems like something that would be in the 'fine' print.

 

[ChadT41]

You can go to the ptat and save series and it will save the series to your segment of the hard drive.

For fox, NBC and non O&O Abc stations, it is 3 am the next morning. For O&O abc is 72 hours, and for all CBS it is 7 days later for Autohop. You can still manually skip commercials on all immediately with the fast forward or skip forward button.

 

[MikeD-C05]

You can create a series timer and specify new or save all episodes. If it is being recorded during PTAT it will create a copy of your show that will go to the no folder -folder unless you specify which folder you do want it to go to. I do this for my shows that I want to transfer to my I-pad.