Why does live buffer stop while i am watching a recorded show?

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@Amassengale wrote:
Yes, but I'm not interested in extra work-arounds that leave little recordings on my dvr that I have to go back and clean off later.
How about just doing it right, so that we catch up to the 90's?

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How about just going back to DirectTV?

I always just press Erase when I'm done watching a recording.  No little pieces sitting around the DVR.

Do you understand how U-verse uses a limited number of streams into your home.  Do you also comprehend that it would have to use an additional stream to continue to buffer the channel you just switched off of, just in case you come back?

"Tis better to hit the RECORD button than to curse the lack of buffers."

One stream out of only four?  per TV?   I surely wouldn't want that.  Maybe when most subscribers have gigapower they'll increase the stream limits to where that would make sense.

The number of streams is based on bandwidth limitations.  That stream would be necessary for each TV Receiver, thus your "one stream" is now two extra streams for two receivers, meaning two TVs watching live TV now consume all the streams in a non-Gigapower home (and all but one in a Gigapower home).

I'm not saying that it shouldn't work the way you ask in a perfect world.  However, U-verse has to work within limitations, and the stream limitation being one of the most confining.  They're supposedly reengineering U-verse towards a common platform with DIRECTV.  Maybe then you can get it.

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@Amassengale wrote:
Just add one more dedicated stream. After 15 years of having it on other systems, do I really have to go backwards now ?

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Who gets to use that 'dedicated stream'?  Me or family members watching the other 2 boxes?

That's like the commercial showing the family members fighting over the last Eggo!