Grrr! Apparently my DVR did the equivilant of sleeping through all the notices to reset the clocks. Not only did it not record the Simpsons, Arrested Development and Desperate Housewives, but I woke up and found it inexplicably recording Leave It To Beaver on TVLand. It did record Deadwood, but there was no happiness in the singular household this morning. I bebooted the DVR, but I’m concerned. Do I need to reprogram all my regular programming, or was this just a one-night glitch?
Did anybody else have this problem?
My DVR recorded all my shows on time even with the time change, however, my roommate who has an older version DVR missed all his programmings because of it.
Hmmmm-how much older? Mine is about a year old, but it sure sounds like we had the same thing happen.
No trouble here. I have an old Phillips series 1 TiVo, and one of the newfangled Series 2 Humax DVD+R TiVos, and both handled the time change without a blink.
We’re on our third Comcast DVR box. The first two crapped out after about eight months of use each. We lost everything we had recorded, and Comcast had to come out and replace the box.
The last time it happened was about seven months ago. I get nervous whenever I record something now (although the guy who delivered the last one insisted that this is unlikely to happen with the new model of box they set us up with).
My DVR did something unexpected in relation to daylight saving time. On Saturday night I set up the programming for Sunday’s shows. Apparently when the DVR reset its clock at 2:00 AM, it assumed that it should move everything: the 8:00 PM programming was changed to 9:00 PM, and so forth. Nutty. It’s as if the box thought that I didn’t know about daylight saving time, and it was trying to fix my errors.
Sometimes I think this DVR, which came from Cox Cable, is essentially a beta test. There are so many glitches that I just can’t trust the thing.
My Comcast DVR box is still on Standard Time as of Monday noon, but has so far recorded everything I had scheduled on Sunday. The guide is still in standard time, so the “6 o’clock news” is in the guide as coming on at 5pm. I’m wondering if it won’t jump ahead until it doesn’t have any scheduled recordings, in which case, it will never jump ahead.
If it doesn’t record 24 tonight there will be much anger…
I’ve had my Tivo hang once or twice. The light was on like it was recording, but it was just stuck that way, and wouldn’t respond to the remote.
This is in years of use though, so not exactly common.
My Toshiba TiVo (Series 2) handled the time change just fine, and recorded the correct shows on Sunday morning.
The only problem I’ve had is that sometimes the last couple of minutes of a show is not recorded. Seems to be happening more often lately. I haven’t investigated it enough to see if it’s the fault is in the TiVo, the TV station or the dumb user.
You guys are lucky. My knock-off brand NoTaTiVo from Adelphia has had the entire channel listings scrambled for over a month. Apparently they moved ONE channel, and it hosed the whole system, and nobody over there knows how to fix it. So I have to record “BBQ With Bobby Flay” in order to watch “Mythbusters”, etc.
If the daylight savings time switch made things worse, I certainly haven’t noticed!
Some of ABC’s shows are now slightly longer than an hour. This has become the norm with “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives.” ABC is probably trying to guarantee audience retention for the shows that follow these hits, but I think this practice stinks.
TV Guide magazine now lists the official runtime of “Desperate Housewives” as 1 hour 2 minutes, and lists the runtime of “Lost” as 1 hour 1 minute. “Alias” is also 1 hour 1 minute. “American Idol” on Fox sometimes runs long. There are undoubtedly others.
I have the HD-DirecTV-TiVo box, which is awesome, but the first one got sent back due to a crash. The second one has been performing better ever since I started putting it on “standby” everytime I walk away from it (It still records while in standby).
One thing it does is never deleting season pass shows. Well not never, I have The West Wing (Bravo) on and after 5 it starts deleting, but the NBC ones stay forever. After the list gets too long, it starts getting slow. So I have to go through and delete a bunch at one time.
Handled the time change fine.