Well, I just hooked up my new Comcast 30-hour Replay unit last night, and I've just gotta say wow! I already love it. I noticed that overnight it upgraded the software. Not sure what version, because I just read this morning (at work) about how to determine the software version....but from what I've read here, I now have some 3.* version, cause I can do manual recordings, and pad the start and end time of recordings. I also noticed that my Replay Zones disappeared, but the system says they'll come back the next time it dials out.
I do have a question about recording conflicts. I wanted to catch the episode of Enterprise that I missed on Wednesday. The same episode plays again on Saturday, so I set up the Saturday ep as a one-time recording. Then I tried to set up the Wednesday run of the show so that it would record every Wednesday. I did this by 'Finding' it, then in the guide, I hit record twice while the Wednesday show was highlighted. The system told me that there was a recording conflict with the Saturday show. Why is this a conflict? I resolved the issue by just deleting the Saturday recording, and telling the Wednesday one to 'Record all'. Now, does that mean it's going to record Enterprise on any and every day and time it finds it (which is currently only Wednesday and Saturday)? What if they also started showing it on Sunday, for example - would a Sunday recording automatically kick in? I told it to keep 2 episodes, if that matters at all.
My second question is: do these units power off themselves after a certain amount of time? I decided to leave it powered on last night before I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, the power was off (green light near power button was off).
Guess I just have to get used to this....if someone wants to answer my questions I'd appreciate it, but if not I'll probably figure it out anyway....I didn't put too much time into figuring it out, cause I was having too much fun exploring the whole thing!
I do have a question about recording conflicts. I wanted to catch the episode of Enterprise that I missed on Wednesday. The same episode plays again on Saturday, so I set up the Saturday ep as a one-time recording. Then I tried to set up the Wednesday run of the show so that it would record every Wednesday. I did this by 'Finding' it, then in the guide, I hit record twice while the Wednesday show was highlighted. The system told me that there was a recording conflict with the Saturday show. Why is this a conflict? I resolved the issue by just deleting the Saturday recording, and telling the Wednesday one to 'Record all'. Now, does that mean it's going to record Enterprise on any and every day and time it finds it (which is currently only Wednesday and Saturday)? What if they also started showing it on Sunday, for example - would a Sunday recording automatically kick in? I told it to keep 2 episodes, if that matters at all.
My second question is: do these units power off themselves after a certain amount of time? I decided to leave it powered on last night before I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, the power was off (green light near power button was off).
Guess I just have to get used to this....if someone wants to answer my questions I'd appreciate it, but if not I'll probably figure it out anyway....I didn't put too much time into figuring it out, cause I was having too much fun exploring the whole thing!