Church AV Guy, you are quite right. Using dummy recordings to occupy the background tuner works very well. I have two two-tuner Comcast DVRs, and two Pio HDD DVDRs. I'm a news junkie. I record live broadcasts of several news programs from one of the DVRs to one of the DVDRs, using dummy recordings. I prefer the functionality of my DVDR for faster playback, better control, easier commercial skipping, etc. Also, I like to save a few news items, so I just edit out what I don't want, and burn the rest to disc later.
With the other DVR and DVDR, I do it the other way. I record movies on the HDD of the DVR, and transfer them later, either while I'm out, or while I'm watching them.
I did a thread that has passed to many pages back, about using the Comcast DVR as a tuner for the Pio DVDR. It has strategies and tricks, from myself, and others.
With the other DVR and DVDR, I do it the other way. I record movies on the HDD of the DVR, and transfer them later, either while I'm out, or while I'm watching them.
I did a thread that has passed to many pages back, about using the Comcast DVR as a tuner for the Pio DVDR. It has strategies and tricks, from myself, and others.
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Originally Posted by Church AV Guy 
Hey, if he wants to do it this way, then that's his choice. I too have concluded that the best way of doing these things is to let the Tivo record, and you just play back the recording. In the instances that I wanted to have the recording done automatically I was recording a program that was on from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM daily. I always start my recordings five minutes early, and end them five minutes late. (This has been useful, especially in the days when some stations went one or two minutes over in a show and that propogated through the whole rest of the evening's schedule. Anyway...) So the Tivo was recording from 3:55pm to 5:05pm daily. I set up the Tivo with a manual timer on a differnet channel to record from 3:50PM to 4:05 PM daily. This one ALWAYS came on first, and occupied the background tuner. The show I wanted to watch then came up and was given the forground tuner (with the active A/V outputs). I put a program in my DVD recorder to record from the Tivo, input AV1, from 3:55 to 5:05 daily, and I never failed to get my program. I would then just delete the material form the manual timer recording, as I didn't care about it, and I saved the actual program I wanted on the Tivo until I made the DVD of it.
It's easier to do than explain.
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Hey, if he wants to do it this way, then that's his choice. I too have concluded that the best way of doing these things is to let the Tivo record, and you just play back the recording. In the instances that I wanted to have the recording done automatically I was recording a program that was on from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM daily. I always start my recordings five minutes early, and end them five minutes late. (This has been useful, especially in the days when some stations went one or two minutes over in a show and that propogated through the whole rest of the evening's schedule. Anyway...) So the Tivo was recording from 3:55pm to 5:05pm daily. I set up the Tivo with a manual timer on a differnet channel to record from 3:50PM to 4:05 PM daily. This one ALWAYS came on first, and occupied the background tuner. The show I wanted to watch then came up and was given the forground tuner (with the active A/V outputs). I put a program in my DVD recorder to record from the Tivo, input AV1, from 3:55 to 5:05 daily, and I never failed to get my program. I would then just delete the material form the manual timer recording, as I didn't care about it, and I saved the actual program I wanted on the Tivo until I made the DVD of it.
It's easier to do than explain.
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It's easy to change back using the drop down options and generally they stick.
