What is SDV/TA? I didn't know you could turn Suggestions off?
Could these things be the reason why the wrong program tapes on a recorded channel also?This has been happening a lot lately. Sanna On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 19:18, Glen Farney <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, who knows these systems well enough to hazard a guess as to what is > actually timing out, if there is a setting change that perhaps Charter can > make to the tuning adapter, the hub switch, or even to Tivo to avoid this > issue. I have Tivo suggestions turned on so it would likely have recorded > something else during the dead time, there by changing the channel for me, > but it seems if you don't watch the suggestions for a while, it slows down > the recording of them to one or two shows a day, or less. > No need to guess, this is a 'feature' of SDV. Remember, the purpose of SDV is to be able to offer X channels on Y frequencies - where X > Y. You only need enough frequencies to serve the number of unique channels simultaneously in use within the service area. Of course, this doesn't work well if someone could tune a channel and go away, leaving the frequency tied up indefinitely. So SDV systems have a timeout, if nothing is done within some period of time the frequency is reclaimed for reuse. I'm a little surprised that the TiVo isn't sending a tuning request to the TA before recording. I thought they did, and older TiVos with a cable box and IR blasters would send the digits before recording - even if it thought it was already on the channel. Could be because, with CableCARD, the TiVo is 'sure' it is on the right channel - but isn't smart enough to tell the signal is gone. I suppose there could be a problem with the TA and the TiVo is sending a request and it isn't making the assignment request to the head end, but I suspect the TiVo isn't asking the TA to assign a frequency to the channel. I think this is most likely something TiVo would need to fix. -- [email protected] / [email protected] Geek, Gweep, Technophile, me. www.GizmoLovers.com / www.MegaZone.org / www.Eyrie-Productions.com Hail Eris Twitter.com/megazone / Facebook.com/megazone / www.LinkedIn.com/in/megazone "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 432-363-4296
