Um, if one recording ends at 9:00, and the other starts at 9:00 - this is not two being recorded at the same time. Unless MCE takes mighty long to change channels (if necessary). What you describe works with TiVo - why not MCE?
I think you misread my message. I record one show from 8 to 9 and TWO shows from 9 to 10. That's when I get that problem.
I think I'll just set up a manual recording from 8 to 8:59 every Wednesday to go around this problem. Of course I can't tell my MCE to skip repeats and stuff like that, but I think I can live with just deleting dupes.
I have TiVo (two tuner set-top purchase retail, subscribed through DirectTV) and several times a week record TWO shows say from 8:00-9:00 and TWO MORE shows from 9:00-10:00.
At 9:00 (that is, at 1 second past 8:59:59) the tuners switch channels (when necessary), simultaneously ending the recording of the first two shows and beginning the recording the two new shows.
I only have a problem if I schedule TWO recordings to start at say 10:00 and a previous recording is not scheduled to end until say 10:30. In this situation my TiVo notifies me of the conflict and ask which show(s) I want to record.
If Windows XP MCE with TWO TUNERS as provided by Dell on the XPS 600 can't handle this, than this is a serious problem!
Well, maybe it is just my XPS 400 that does that. It records two shows at the same time without problems. But when it runs into the type of a problem I described, it seems like it just randomly picks one of the two shows that is supposed to start right after the previous recording. I tried that two different weeks. Even checked to see if both shows are first runs and all that good stuff. Everything looked fine, but it didn't record two shows. Maybe I should call Dell about it, but I'm not looking forward to that experience.
I'd be interested to hear what others have to say on this ... as at the moment I have my XPS upstairs with only 1 satelite box to source from ... but the plan was to use this eventually with two tuners and so your issue concerns me - it just doesn't seem like it should be happening.
Well, after I set up a manual recording that lasted from 8:00 to 8:59, both shows that followed that recording were recorded just fine. So, it has to be either my card or MCE. I guess I'll bite the bullet and call up Dell this weekend. Wish my luck, I may as well reserve a half of Saturday for that.
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SuperK
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I think you misread my message. I record one show from 8 to 9 and TWO shows from 9 to 10. That's when I get that problem.
I think I'll just set up a manual recording from 8 to 8:59 every Wednesday to go around this problem. Of course I can't tell my MCE to skip repeats and stuff like that, but I think I can live with just deleting dupes.
K
CTskydiver
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November 28th, 2005 05:00
I have TiVo (two tuner set-top purchase retail, subscribed through DirectTV) and several times a week record TWO shows say from 8:00-9:00 and TWO MORE shows from 9:00-10:00.
At 9:00 (that is, at 1 second past 8:59:59) the tuners switch channels (when necessary), simultaneously ending the recording of the first two shows and beginning the recording the two new shows.
I only have a problem if I schedule TWO recordings to start at say 10:00 and a previous recording is not scheduled to end until say 10:30. In this situation my TiVo notifies me of the conflict and ask which show(s) I want to record.
If Windows XP MCE with TWO TUNERS as provided by Dell on the XPS 600 can't handle this, than this is a serious problem!
SuperK
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November 28th, 2005 11:00
CTskydiver
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November 28th, 2005 12:00
SuperK
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December 2nd, 2005 12:00
Well, after I set up a manual recording that lasted from 8:00 to 8:59, both shows that followed that recording were recorded just fine. So, it has to be either my card or MCE. I guess I'll bite the bullet and call up Dell this weekend. Wish my luck, I may as well reserve a half of Saturday for that.
K