Time Warner Cable Navigator - Page 385

Originally Posted by SVTarHeel

I have a question for heavy users of series recording. Last week, I had a situation where there were three 10pm shows I wanted to record. One of them was a cable show that is continually reshown throughout the week. It's listed below the other two in my priority listing but was shown as having a conflict with the 10pm slot. Is the software not able to figure out a solution on its own?

A couple of weeks before that, with the same situation, I tried redoing the whole series recording by scheduling the repeat showing at 1am ET but the next week reverted to 10pm. Since I'm far from being a Navigator fan, I may be assuming the worst but I had assumed that there was at least enough logic to the software that it could solve this kind of problem.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Originally Posted by BenJF3

One would think so seeing as how program descriptions are identical except for the "NEW" flag (at least on SARA). The guide should be able to automatically resolve the conflict by finding future recordings and listing them as options to select. I know SARA does not do this and I constantly have to find later showings and manually set them. It really is a pain in the a**!

Originally Posted by VisionOn

Not for me. Navigator threw back a mess of titles (slowly) that were hard to distinguish between without clicking on each individually.

For example searching "Watchmen" would bring up listings for "Watchmen" and "Watchmen" but you would only know that one was on HBO and the other on HBO Latino when you drilled down into the list.

It might have changed since then but it's dog slow performance and results meant I never used it.

Originally Posted by timick1

Hello,
I was just "upgraded" to Navigator. I have a question on HBO On-Demand.

How do I delete the In-Progress List?

Thanks

Originally Posted by jcalabria

AFAIK, it just goes away after a certain timeout period (hours, not days). I don't think it's a big deal that it's there unless you are trying to do some "covert" viewing.

Originally Posted by PedjaR

That's mild compared with trying to find a particular game and seeing several dozens of "College Football" headings you need to drill down to.

Originally Posted by timick1

I've had the 8300HD-DVR for a few years now. Should I exchange it for a newer model... do the newer models have larger hard drives?

Originally Posted by timick1

I've had the 8300HD-DVR for a few years now. Should I exchange it for a newer model... do the newer models have larger hard drives?

Originally Posted by BenJF3

I have to ask this though:

Wouldn't it just be easier to use the keyboard search to find your show?

Originally Posted by jcalabria

It will list the conflict until the conflict has passed... THEN it will reschedule the bumped show if it can find another. Just ignore the conflict and it will work itself out as long as your lowest level priority in the conflicting set of shows has an additional showing of that episode.

Originally Posted by jcalabria

It does just that... but not until after the initial conflict has passed. I have several three-show conflicts and it always works out correctly with no user intervention whatsoever.

You ARE, of course, screwed if all three shows are network shows that don't repeat, but that is not the fault of Navigator's conflict resolution system. For those, I just use my old (SD) Panasonic DVR or, more recently, the Media PC plus HD HomeRun network tuner to record a clear QAM broadcast HD or OTA HD. (One HD HomeRun tuner is connected to cable, the other to my attic antenna).

Originally Posted by holl_ands

NNNNOOOOO!!!!!!!! Keep the 8300HD!!!!!

It runs MDN, which is head over heals faster and less buggy than the ODN ("HDC") boxes.

Unless your area is intentionally blocked, the 8300HD will also work with an external SATA:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=516559
Get a 500-1000 GB "DVR Expander" drive from WD, Iomega or Apricorn....or DIY from what works:
http://www.baseportal.com/baseportal/xnappo/navigator
Note that WD "My Book" does NOT work....

Originally Posted by Riverside_Guy

What I did (got 40-50 of those series recordings!) was take the time to order the priority list... I group it by day, with network shows that do not repeat being listed above cable shows that do have repeats. Makes it a lot easier to deal with once it's ordered.

Not to mention I HAVE on occasion moved that priority to deal with unusual situations. Or in the case of three network shows at the same time (Monday is the worst day) I'll arrange the priority to having an easily found show being the one that really does not get recorded.

I had all sorts of issues with this system at first because I was manually doing resolutions... that is a BAD thing. Use the priority list so the box can make it's own decisions.

Originally Posted by Riverside_Guy

...Add in the lost functionality of selecting a show in the guide and with one button press, getting all instances of that show... something I used to do ALL the time in the Passport days! That being said, such a feature seems to have shown up for some... BUT it could be a LONG time before everyone gets that software update.

Originally Posted by Satch Man

If I could pick one of my major pet peeves with Navigator, the above post illustrates it perfectly! What a PITA! Navigator needs simpler search solutions to deal with these types of issues:

Keyword Search
Ability to search for specific games or teams within a sports category.
An easier to find method, rather than having to open up each tier of a title when multiple listings of a show are involved.

In the example above, looking for College Football, looking for any sport by a title search is too generic. What Navigator should do is BOTH of the following in a future software update:

Keyword Search: So that any part of a game or team will be returned as you key in the game or team name. As you key, the ability to narrow results to make finding what customers want easier.

Update the Theme Category to go like this:

1.) Press B to "Find Shows" enter KeyWord relating to game or sports event OR

2.) Press B a second time for Category Search-Select Theme, Select Sports, Select Football, Baseball, Basketball. But for each team sport category there is a horizontal option that says GAME or TEAM. Scroll to that and you actually get a list of specific games in chronological order that you would want to see on the left side of the screen. Under #2's example above:

2.a. The first option gives you a title of the sports based on the sport selected from a list. (like it is now) BUT.

2.b. A second option in the horizontal scroll menu not yet available, would list games or teams. Selecting that, brings up the chronological list of games or teams showing within the half hour to the next several days for that sport on the left that you want to watch.

Jack

Originally Posted by holl_ands

One more reason for holding on to 8300HD running MDN:

Any month now, TWC will release their new and deproved IPG for ODN boxes,
with Multi-Room, IPTV?, super-duper hi-rez graphics, lots of different ways to display
the channel grid, search not only programs but also PPV & OnDemand....incl by keyword....

Stand by for EVEN MORE BUGGY Navigator-II Software!!!!

Originally Posted by Satch Man

Article on what's in the works for Navigator:

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2...entertainment/

Jack

Originally Posted by mfogarty5

Thanks Jack. That was a good read.

Now I have to find what part of the city that room is in.

I still don't know how TWC is going to roll out a multi-room DVR if the Cisco 8640 doesn't have MoCA. Maybe it will be accompanied by a different box?

Originally Posted by margoba

here's an interesting mind experiment: pick your top 3 from the above list

Originally Posted by Satch Man

Article on what's in the works for Navigator:

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2...entertainment/

Jack