Re: Recording Options

cugsie · ‎06-15-2008

Why does Uverse give us such ridiculous recording options.

Any day, around (?am/pm)

Anyday, anytime

Any day, Anytime, once per day

If you want to tape a show that is repeated during the week, for ex. Stossell on Fox. is on thurs at 8pm. But even if you pick the option any day, around 8pm, the show tapes every single time it's on. Another ex. when you choose first run only, if the show is on the weekend, it tapes it again. Ex. if you record Nancy Grace (new shows are only on during the week), uverse records it over the weekend on sat and sun which are repeats. Why can't they have the same options as the vcr's gave us. weekly, daily, weekends, etc. I think we need better recording choices.

RCSMG · ‎12-10-2007

cugsie wrote:

Why does Uverse give us such ridiculous recording options.

Any day, around (?am/pm)

Anyday, anytime

Any day, Anytime, once per day

If you want to tape a show that is repeated during the week, for ex. Stossell on Fox. is on thurs at 8pm. But even if you pick the option any day, around 8pm, the show tapes every single time it's on. Another ex. when you choose first run only, if the show is on the weekend, it tapes it again. Ex. if you record Nancy Grace (new shows are only on during the week), uverse records it over the weekend on sat and sun which are repeats. Why can't they have the same options as the vcr's gave us. weekly, daily, weekends, etc. I think we need better recording choices.

None of us here can answer that question. Maybe the recording options will change when phase 3 of thdvr rolls out. Maybe not. Since I have had Uverse I have seen many major and minor changes which have improved the service drastically. My only suggestion for you is to be patient if you can. Because Uverse is one of the new providers on the block, their services are not up to speed with the already established providers.

Cherry3z · ‎04-17-2010

Agreed. I used to have Directv and sadly had to give it up for Uverse (not by choice, neighborhood switched and we're all wired for only Uverse now). The recording options on the Dtv DVR were SO much better. If you're listening AT&T, here's the features I'd like and I'm sure I'm not the only one:

An option to change both the ending and start time of a program by a minute or 2 (instead of just the end time in 5 min increments). My local news always seems to start about a minute early, and I miss the lead story EVERY night!
And speaking of the local news, I don't always get a chance to watch it and before I know it there are 10, 20, etc nightly news episodes.........I'd like the option of "keep the 3 most recent (or "x" most recent) episodes of a show, anything older it deletes it automatically.
How about an option to delete the entire group of a particular recorded show...........ie: I've been recording King Of the Hill, and I have 140 odd episodes. There's NO way I'm going to sit there and individually delete all 140 episodes, yet that's my only choice if I want to get rid of them all.
Ability to change series recording options such as "keep until I erase" without having to delete the series recording and set it up all over again.

There's probably more, but those are the ones off the top of my head right now that have been driving me crazy since I got Uverse.

Also, totally unrelated but if you actually read this, GET THE TENNIS CHANNEL. I'm missing the French Open right now because you can't seem to come to some terms!!!

texasguy37 · ‎05-18-2009

Cherry3z wrote:
Agreed. I used to have Directv and sadly had to give it up for Uverse (not by choice, neighborhood switched and we're all wired for only Uverse now). The recording options on the Dtv DVR were SO much better. If you're listening AT&T, here's the features I'd like and I'm sure I'm not the only one:

An option to change both the ending and start time of a program by a minute or 2 (instead of just the end time in 5 min increments). My local news always seems to start about a minute early, and I miss the lead story EVERY night! The DVR will add "soft padding" to the scheduled programs of 1 mintue prior to the start time and 3 minutes to the end of the end time. The soft padding will not be added if a conflict will arise. Apparently, your local news starts more than 1 minute early.
And speaking of the local news, I don't always get a chance to watch it and before I know it there are 10, 20, etc nightly news episodes.........I'd like the option of "keep the 3 most recent (or "x" most recent) episodes of a show, anything older it deletes it automatically. New feature will be rolled out soon. See this thread: http://utalk.att.com/t5/Features/New-DVR-features-rolling-out-May-20-2010/td-p/221798
How about an option to delete the entire group of a particular recorded show...........ie: I've been recording King Of the Hill, and I have 140 odd episodes. There's NO way I'm going to sit there and individually delete all 140 episodes, yet that's my only choice if I want to get rid of them all. New feature will be rolled out soon. See this thread: http://utalk.att.com/t5/Features/New-DVR-features-rolling-out-May-20-2010/td-p/221798
Ability to change series recording options such as "keep until I erase" without having to delete the series recording and set it up all over again. May be addressed with this new update. We shall see.

There's probably more, but those are the ones off the top of my head right now that have been driving me crazy since I got Uverse.

Also, totally unrelated but if you actually read this, GET THE TENNIS CHANNEL. I'm missing the French Open right now because you can't seem to come to some terms!!! The French Open is being shown on ESPN2 daily beginning at 11:00 am CDT. It is on right now as we speak.

RCSMG · ‎12-10-2007

Cherry3z wrote:

Agreed. I used to have Directv and sadly had to give it up for Uverse (not by choice, neighborhood switched and we're all wired for only Uverse now). The recording options on the Dtv DVR were SO much better. If you're listening AT&T, here's the features I'd like and I'm sure I'm not the only one:

An option to change both the ending and start time of a program by a minute or 2 (instead of just the end time in 5 min increments). My local news always seems to start about a minute early, and I miss the lead story EVERY night! You can setup a manual recording where you can chose the exact start and stop time. Hit search >recorded tv>set recording>create a manual recording with:.

And speaking of the local news, I don't always get a chance to watch it and before I know it there are 10, 20, etc nightly news episodes.........I'd like the option of "keep the 3 most recent (or "x" most recent) episodes of a show, anything older it deletes it automatically. It was announced that this feature would begin rollout on May 20th

How about an option to delete the entire group of a particular recorded show...........ie: I've been recording King Of the Hill, and I have 140 odd episodes. There's NO way I'm going to sit there and individually delete all 140 episodes, yet that's my only choice if I want to get rid of them all. Log in to the web remote and delete entire series in one click.

Ability to change series recording options such as "keep until I erase" without having to delete the series recording and set it up all over again. They used to have that. At least I used to change that setting in the single recording settings.

There's probably more, but those are the ones off the top of my head right now that have been driving me crazy since I got Uverse.

Also, totally unrelated but if you actually read this, GET THE TENNIS CHANNEL. I'm missing the French Open right now because you can't seem to come to some terms!!!

xtcnafive0 · ‎06-10-2010

The "keep until I erase" feature.

Is there a way to keep that option as the default???

It's so time consuming to go through every recording and change the option.

RCSMG · ‎12-10-2007

xtcnafive0 wrote:

The "keep until I erase" feature.

Is there a way to keep that option as the default???

It's so time consuming to go through every recording and change the option.

Not at this time.