Explain this.....(please)

I think my 8300HD PVR has a built in time machine :p

I am half way through a program and I decide I cannot finish watching it so I hit the record button. Let's say I have already watched 60 Minutes and there is only 30 minutes left. I would think when I go back to watch the recording that it would have started recording from the point I hit the button right......? Well, I start to watch my recording and it seems to have gone back in time and started recording content 20 - 30 minutes prior to when I hit the record button.

How is this possible? Is there a buffer in these machines that causes live TV to be cached for an amount of time?

Explain this.....(please)

I think my 8300HD PVR has a built in time machine :p

I am half way through a program and I decide I cannot finish watching it so I hit the record button. Let's say I have already watched 60 Minutes and there is only 30 minutes left. I would think when I go back to watch the recording that it would have started recording from the point I hit the button right......? Well, I start to watch my recording and it seems to have gone back in time and started recording content 20 - 30 minutes prior to when I hit the record button.

How is this possible? Is there a buffer in these machines that causes live TV to be cached for an amount of time?

There is a 1 hour buffer. This is what allows you to pause / rewind live TV. It's always recording whatever you're watching into the buffer.

The PVR is recording everything you watch up to about an hour behind I think. Every time you change the channel it erases the buffer and starts again. When you hit the record button, it records not from the current time but from the time you changed to the channel.

The PVR is recording everything you watch up to about an hour behind I think. Every time you change the channel it erases the buffer and starts again. When you hit the record button, it records not from the current time but from the time you changed to the channel.

Ah, makes sense then. Thanks. In the future I will change the channel and return then start the recording.

In my opinion this is a great feature. If you start watching a show (from the beginning or close to it), get about 15 minutes in and think "my wife would like this show" you can hit record and voila, the entire show is saved off for later viewing. I've done it many times. If you really just want to save from this point forward press channel up, channel down, record, "A" and it won't save the stuff you've already seen.

My question relates to this as well (although I would have liked to start a new thread). Has anyone figured-out a way to prevent the 8300HD from jumping to live TV when you are watching a show that is being recorded, and that show ends?

I've done it a couple of times sucessfully, however I am not sure how I've done it... Usually, I push REC or hold REC then rewind to the beginning of the LIVE show to start watching it... When the show ends, the recording bar on the bottom just continues going without booting me back to LIVE tv.

Any ideas? Has anyone sucessfully found a way to avoid the LIVE jump-back?

-Sukoto

Has anyone figured-out a way to prevent the 8300HD from jumping to live TV when you are watching a show that is being recorded, and that show ends?
There are notes about this in the issues thread, but in general, no. It's a bug within the current firmware used by Rogers. (but has been fixed in newer firmware)

The kickout bug will NOT happen only if you were on the recording channel before the recording began. (so if you were already on channel 529 at 7:44, recording something at 8:00, and didn't start watching until 8:55, you won't get kicked out at 9.) I do this from time to time if I know that I won't be able to watch a program right when it starts.

A pain, but a fix is coming at some point to Rogers customers...in theory. :)