On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Tim Northrup <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 21, 10:10 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... So far, > > I have not figured out how to get repeated recordings of manually > scheduled > > recordings (essential for my recording of TDS/CR, which I like to record > on > > the early morning next day repeat, currently from 6:30 to 7:30 am). I > have > > to believe there is a way to do this, but so far, no joy. > > I've had the Comcast HD DVR for nearly a year, and I'm pretty sure > there is no way to do this. If you find a way, please share! > For Time: Serendipitously, I discovered how to do get manually scheduled recordings to repeat M-F this afternoon. After setting the manual recording, there is a menu that includes the red circle to confirm the recording. But there is also a "View recording settings" (wrench icon), that takes you to another menu that allows you to select from a number of options (record, once, every day, once a week, M-F, etc) which is similar to the options presented on DirecTV. Again, I have asked two service men sent to my house (for other issues) and at least three different customer service representatives on the phone for help with this, and they all told me it was not possible. This is a relief - I have actually had my only prolonged period of missing TDS/CR over the last 2 months. IN the summer I can just record the primetime episodes, which I did with Comcast; but once the fall season begins I typically don't have a tuner free to devote at 8:00, and so I usually do a manual recording for the early am show. For the last two months I have had to remember to manually set the recording for each day of the upcoming week, and more weeks than not I forget. Today I was able to set one recording again (Monday is always a repeat from the previous week, but that is a small price to pay). While I am back on the Comcast thread again, I can now report that the first half of my DirecTV-less NFL season has not been as bad as I feared. I have had a few weeks when I was frustrated that I was not able to see a preferred game in its entirety (I forgot how often the Bay Area gets the second game of a double header blacked out, and what it is like to be force-fed 49er and Raider games). But even though I am a Rams fan, and hate the 49ers, this season they have been in enough interesting games to make it not a disaster, and the Red Zone has been a pleasant surprise. I only used the DirectTV version a little bit, and then only at the end of either the morning or afternoon game, so I am not sure how different it is, but I have been happy to learn that they do more than just show action inside the 20 yard line. In fact I have been able to follow most of the action in key games, and the experience is basically like getting interrupted to see interesting parts of other games. I feel like I saw almost all of the Steelers/Patriots game today, for example, even though it was not carried in NoCal. I think I only watched Red Zone today, and nothing else. When a marquee game (for me) is playing in the Bay Area I typically do watch that on my main tuner, but I keep the secondary tuner on the Red Zone, and switch over PRN. If they ever offered an a la carte version of the NFL package, where I could pay even $10.00 to watch one specific game, I would do that on occasion, but for now I am happy to be saving the $370 (or whatever they are charging this year). I do know that they are giving it free to new DirecTV subscribers, but I would have been a very old DirecTV subscriber this year, and not eligible for it - plus of course my now obstructed southern exposure made that not an option anyway. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
