Once upon a time Sandra shaped the electrons to say... > I may have done that, but then I can turn the TV on hours later and > when I select a channel, the Status Bar lights up half way across,
That's normal. The TiVo only keeps a 30-minute buffer for Live TV. So when you turn it on, you'll see the bar with a green section going back a maximum of 30-minutes. It could be less than that, if it changed channels, etc. If those 30 minutes spans an hour mark, etc, you could have a bar that shows an hour, maybe more, total, with just 30 minutes of green in the middle. > so that if I did want to record this program, it would be starting > in the middle of the bar. When I play it back, it ends halfway > through the hour. If you hit Record in LiveTV you have two options. One is to record in Best, preserving the existing buffer - however far back that goes. The other is to select a quality and record from 'now', losing anything in the buffer. The recording will end at the end of the program as indicated by the guide data. > I don't understand what the 30-minute buffer means. Usually, > whenever I set up a program to tape it started at the beginning of > the Status Bar and taped the whole hour. This other problem has just The 30 minute buffer is the running buffer it keeps of Live TV. That's what allows you to go back and rewind live TV. Recordings scheduled ahead of time, such as Season Passes, etc, will always start and end as indicated by the guide data and have full bars. (Barring a few special conditions, such as a reboot during recording, or clipping.) But recordings manually started from Live TV can vary. > happened a few times recently. Actually, what prompted me to ask > about this was when I just came home and turned on a live program > and the Status Bar was at the half way mark just turning it on. I > hadn't tried to tape the channel but if I did it would only get half > the show starting at this point as it happened before. Yeah, that's normal. > I found that if I hit record say ten minutes into the program, it > will not record the show from the beginning, but just from the point > that I pressed Record. Only one time that I recall it recorded from That depends. If you change the channel, then the buffer is flushed. It can't record what it doesn't have, and there is no way for the TiVo to go back in time and record what has already aired. So if you have changed the channel and find a show that you want to record, you can only record from 'now'. If you've had it on the same channel for a while, then it iwill have a buffer and you have the option of recording the show and keeping the buffer. Say there is a 2-hour movie airing. If you change the channel 30 minutes into the movie and decide to record it, you cannot record those first 30 minutes, period. If you start watching the movie when it starts, then you can record the entire thing up to 30 minutes into the movie - because the first 30 minutes will be in the buffer and can be saved. But ONLY if you elect to record at Best, since that's the quality of the Live buffer. Change quality and it flushes the buffer and starts from 'now'. If you watch it from the beginning and decide to record it an hour into the movie - then you will lose the first 30 minutes, because the buffer is only 30 minutes long and those first 30 minutes have already been dropped. > the start even though it was already into the hour. This is watching > Live, that I am referring to. But if I set up to record and that > marker is at the halfway mark w/o me knowing it, it ends halfway. I > don't know why the marker on the Status Bar gets stuck at that > point. It doesn't, that's not what it means when you see that. -MZ -- <URL:mailto:megazoneatmegazone.org> Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me. "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171 <URL:http://www.megazone.org/> <URL:http://www.eyrie-productions.com/> Eris
