[Mark Dubin]

With baseball games averaging over 4 hours, I need BIG numbers in the padding option. Do I have to keep pressing the ARROW key to increase the minutes by ONE until it reaches 120, or is there a faster way?


Typing in 120 does not work. Pressing the FF button does nothing at all.

I would recommend pressing FF to jump ahead 30 minutes like the guide jumps ahead 12 hours.


If there is no shortcut, then it simply takes too long and I would revert back to just recording the next couple of shows in the guide as it would be faster.


That would be a shame. (and poor design, IMHO)

 

[karog]

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Originally posted by Mark Dubin: Do I have to keep pressing the ARROW key to increase the minutes by ONE until it reaches 120, or is there a faster way?

I don't have 3.0 so I don't know what they do.


What I wish they would do is allow you to type the digits just like you do to change a channel or like you do in the Channel guide to jump to a channel.


The value would be a 3 digit number (either all minutes or, like jump, HMM). Each time you push a digit, the left digit disappears, the middle and right digits move left and the new digit takes the right position.


Thus if the current value is 000 and you push 30 then the value would be 030. If the current value is 123 and you push 4 the new value is 234.


With at most 3 key pushes you can have any value between 000 and 999.


Is the scheme in 3.0 easier or more intuitive than this?


karog

 

[DrStrange]

IIRC you can hold the arrow buttons and it auto repeats. It also wraps so you can go backwards from 0 to 240. But I tried channel, ff, and numeric buttons too and was disappointed none of them did anything, especially given how nicely the Manual Recording UI works.

 

[Wayno]

[NOTE: I'm one of the Beta Testers for 3.0 }

I was initially concerned about the lack of direct entry for padding minutes too. However, I'll say that at least on my machine the numbers advance VERY rapidly if you hold down the button so padding say an hour takes only a few seconds. Admittedly direct entry via the keypad would have been better.


Good news is that on manual record you CAN use direct entry for the channel #, which will be great news for you sattellite owners with 70 bazillion channels.



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