[mythtv-users] Good Feature that DirectTV DVR has that myth doesn't

[James L. Paul]

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rosenbla at uchastings.edu wrote:
| So I was comparing DVR features with someone who has a directv dvr.
|
| As an example:
| Scrubs is on at 8:30pm, so say I tune myth to that channel at 8:28, I
watch Scrubs
| until 8:35 and then I have to go somewhere or do something
unexpectedly, well I
| could then turn on manual recording and get a recording to watch
tomorrow that
| would be from 8:35 until the end of the show, in other words it would
be missing the
| first 5 minutes (even though it was available in the buffer, so long
as I didn't channel
| surf during the commerical break)
|
| But what the directv dvr does instead is realize the show is buffered
back to 8:28
| (cause I didn't change channels) and it asks would you like to record
Scrubs from
| 8:30 to 9:00. It then grabs from 8:30 until 8:35 from the buffer as it
continues
| recording thus leaving you with the whole show to watch. Chances are
you want to
| watch the first 5 minutes again when you watch the show a few days
later to remind
| you of what happened.
|
| So I thought that was a good feature especially when it is a show you
weren't
| planning to watch (unlike Scrubs). Just my two cents, what do you think?

I was thinking about that the other day, that's a feature my Tivo lets
me do. I was thinking that in MythTV, pressing the record button while
watching live TV could pop up a transparent dialog asking if you'd like
to record this program. If yes, it would use the ringbuffer back to the
beginning of the timeslot (or the beginning of the buffer if it doesn't
go back that far.) The best way to do this isn't clear to me, but it
would be a very nice feature.

| -Brad
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