How to Record With a Direct TV DVR
You can choose to record only one episode or you can choose to record the entire series. Choosing to record the series will bring up a choice of options, beginning with the choice of whether to record reruns, only new episodes or both. The default setting is Both, so if you make no changes you will record every episode of the program that airs on that channel. Selecting that option will let you change it to First Run or Repeats.
The next option for recording is Keep at Most, which sets the number of episodes the DVR will keep stored. The default setting is 5, but highlighting and selecting that option will let you make changes. The choices will be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 or All Episodes. Depending on the program and the channel the All Episodes choice could fill a disk quickly. For example, if you chose to record SpongeBob on Nickelodian, and recorded both reruns and First Runs you would fill up the DVR in less than a month.
The next choice is Keep Until. Selecting this gives you an option to keep the recording Until Disk Is Full, which is default, and Until I Delete. The second option will save the recording until you manually select it and choose to delete. This option is for programs you want to keep as long as possible. That does not mean it will be safe forever though because the hard drive is subject to fail. That’s why a VCR, or preferably DVD burner, is essential for saving programs indefinitely.
The last two options are for Start Time and Stop Time. The Start Time option allows you to begin recording early and the Stop Time allows you to continue recording past the scheduled end time. For some reason there is no provision in these options for starting late or stopping early. Of course this can be done a couple of different ways, just not on the standard recording options.
The start time is usually not a problem unless something like a Presidential Address or live sporting event is airing before the program. Stop times are usually a problem with live events. The DVR programming has even been updated to suggest including a 30 minute extension of a live event. Being a fan of the Sunday night Fox broadcast there have been many times in the past when an afternoon NASCAR event has totally wrecked (pun intended) the schedule. It takes some experience before you learn exactly how to record programs to compensate for this. It seems like Fox has learned something from the mistakes because now they schedule programs to buffer between the NASCAR and The Simpsons.
Recording can also be done by simply pushing the Record button on the remote. This comes in handy when you happen upon a show that isn’t a series, or when you watch a new series and find it’s something you really like. The Record button allows you to set a series to record by simply pushing it twice. You can tell the difference between a single recording and a recurring recording by the symbol shown. A single recording will look like (R), while a recurring one will look like (R))). Setting a series recording using the Record button will always record with default settings.
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