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UPC Recording problems

  • 23-08-2011 1:14pm
    #1
    Miguel_Sanchez
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    Often times I find when I set a program to record on UPC I get about 5 or 6 minutes of the previous program and the show I want cuts off early.

    Is there anyway to stop this from happening or are UPC just a bit crap when it comes to this?


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  • #2
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »
    Often times I find when I set a program to record on UPC I get about 5 or 6 minutes of the previous program and the show I want cuts off early.

    Is there anyway to stop this from happening or are UPC just a bit crap when it comes to this?
    Nothing to do with UPC, blame the apparent total inability of the broadcasters to keep to their advertised schedule. Honestly, it was better back in the days of stopwatches and mechanical switches .. why in this automated day and age it has got worse is anyone's guess.

    Anyway, there is a setting on UPC boxes that allows you to specify a time in minutes to add to both the start and end of a recording to ensure that you get all of the program.


  • #3
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Alun wrote: »
    Nothing to do with UPC, blame the apparent total inability of the broadcasters to keep to their advertised schedule. Honestly, it was better back in the days of stopwatches and mechanical switches .. why in this automated day and age it has got worse is anyone's guess.

    Anyway, there is a setting on UPC boxes that allows you to specify a time in minutes to add to both the start and end of a recording to ensure that you get all of the program.

    Can I do that when I'm series linking something though? That's when it gets really annoying.

    I don't understand why they don't just fire out a signal or something that tells the box when a certain show is starting.


  • #4
    bullpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,240 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Funnily enough they did have this feature back in the days of video recording. Cant remember what it was called but do remember enabling it for recordings I made.
    I've had the same problem on UPC and have done as was suggested previously and set a time to keep recording beyond the end of the scheduled time.
    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

    I don't understand why they don't just fire out a signal or something that tells the box when a certain show is starting.


  • #5
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    bullpost wrote: »
    Funnily enough they did have this feature back in the days of video recording.

    There was barcodes you could scan with your remote control that would automatically set the video.

    Damn technology making things awkward for me! :mad:


  • #6
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »
    Can I do that when I'm series linking something though? That's when it gets really annoying.
    The setting is global and affects all scheduled recordings, series link or not.
    I don't understand why they don't just fire out a signal or something that tells the box when a certain show is starting.
    Back in the days of analogue video recorders there was a standard for this, whose name escapes me at the moment. I don't think there's an equivalent standard for digital TV though. Anyway, whatever it is it would have to come from the broadcasters themselves though as they're the ones messing around with the schedule, not UPC.

    EDIT: found it ... PDC, or VPS.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_Delivery_Control


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