Explorer 8000 DVR Improvement Requests

[gmclaughlin]

All,

Following some discussion in another thread, I thought it would be a good idea to solicit your input on improvements to the Explorer 8000. So given that, please post your thoughts as to:

A) What the DVR should do that it currently doesn't; and

B) What is does that it shouldn't;

Just to steal a few of the obvious ones off the top to keep you all from fighting to post them, my initial thoughts are:

A) Should do:

-- HD (both display and record) This requires new hardware--soon I hope.
-- Allow for manual recording (the Passport version in Orlando does)
-- Record only "first-run" episodes if desired (no repeats)

B) Shouldn't do:

-- Miss, lose, screw up (whatever) programming
-- Run the HD 24x7
-- Latency -- slow to change channels

Here's the opportunity to have your voice heard.

One caveat: I live in Orlando, and my DVR is running Passport, not Sara. I haven't had the opportunity to play with the Sara version (I will ensure I do soon), so be sure to fully explain your comment.

One guarantee: I'll make sure the VP of Engineering (in charge of the software) and other appropriate people in BHN Tampa Bay see your comments. No guarantees beyond that however.

Ok -- game on...

[Harry]

Okay, I will add a couple more that I think are fairly obvious.

1. Better searching like TIVO for certain actors, show or movie titiles etc.

2. With HD recording (aren't there a lot of us looking forward to that?) we will need larger hard drives.

3. The ability to adjust to last minute schedule changes. If I want to record a show and it starts late because of a presidental address, I would still like it all recorded.

4. The ability to have the record start and stop a couple of minutes before and after show time to handle networks/local stations whose clocks do not exactly match BHN's. This is expecially useful for things like HBO which sometimes run shows a liltle over the guide time.

5. A 30 sec or 1 minute fast forward to aid in commercial skipping.

Harry

[CANDY76MAN]

Thanks GMClaughlin...you the man :D

The main thing I would like to see added is one of these two options,

I think an example would be the easiest way to tell you what I want.....I like to catch the new episode of "The Screen Savers" every weekday on TechTV, now they have one new episode every week day but they rerun that one episode about 3 times in the next 24 hours each day so I end up using 4 hours of my recorder for one show, I also like to catch "The Orielly Factor" everyweek day and it has the same situation ie- 4 hours of recording each day for one show...so what I end up with is running out of recording space in just a few days if I don't have time to go in a manually delete the 18 copies of 6 programs.....now these are the two ways I can think of too solve this problem that I am pretty sure could be done:

1-give recording options that will let me pick a specific channel, time, and day of the week to record and have it apply that to every concurent week forever or untill I tell it to stop....or

2-(this would work too although the first option would be better I think, both would be great :) ) a setting to not record duplicate shows.


Aside from that I am fairly happy with it....I wish they could do something about it losing all the digital channels once every week or two so that I have to reset it and end up missing the screen savers if I don't notice soon enough.

hd recording would be awsome but as mentioned, that's a whole different cable box :) [/img]

[Viremia]

I would like to add something, but honestly, I think all my wishes have been mentioned.

My #1 problem right now - and the cause for me almost throwing the remote across the room countless times - is the delay. I've been sent to InDemand PayPerView so many times because when I enter 011 or 010 or 014, it only takes 01...and then about 10 seconds later, it displays the 3rd digit after already switching channels. That irks me to no end. :evil:

Second to that is the inability to tell it to NOT record reruns.

[Max_Gator]

Different codes than the pace box?

I don't have the dvr yet but aren't they the same?

[CANDY76MAN]

Different codes than the pace box?

I don't have the dvr yet but aren't they the same?

yes, they are the same...and its a pain.