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Cloud PVR issues - Start from beginning/stop recordinf
I can’t seem to start from the beginning or a recording or stop a recording without cancelling it outright. I only record live sports and sometimes I want to start “catching up” before the game is ...
Doing my best to understand the issue here, but I think it's just a difference of how things are implemented on the new Optik TV platform (cloud-based) vs. the old Optik TV platform (local hard-drive based) and how you access them.
On the new platform:
1. if you want to 'restart' a program from the beginning, you can go to the guide, scroll back in time up to 30 hours and select the program you want to watch, even if you haven't recorded it. The content licensors provide 'restart' rights, but they block fast forward. You can only rewind or jump to live.
2. if you want to start watching a recording that is in progress, you can navigate to the recordings manager (press and hold the rec button on your remote), select the recording and hit play. It will start from the beginning of the recording and you can pause, rewind and fast forward to the live point to your heart's content.
In effect, on the new platform, the live channel and the recording are 2 distinct things, but this allows you to jump from your set-top box to your phone, to your tablet and back again.
On the old platform, the live channel and recording were more integrated, but you couldn't jump around from device to device as the recording is stored locally.
All recordings should start 2 minutes early and end 2 minutes late, except for live sports, which run over by 60 minutes (90 minutes for tennis).
Thanks Rocky3 for some insight. I do now see that Cancel Recording works the same as Stop Recording. The wording of cancel was throwing me off and had me worried it would simply remove the recording from the storage.
As for using Start from beginning. That doesn't work for the situation I'm describing. I want to be able to start from the beginning and then be able to skip forward and back as I want. Start from Beginning in the live guide does not allow you to skip forward on all programs. And yes you can start at the beginning of a recorded program IF the program has stopped or finished, but what I'm ultimately looking for is the ability to start a program that is still recording from the beginning so I can "catch up" to live if I want to. I don't want to have to wait until the program is finished before I can start watching it.
For example: I record the hockey game because I won't be home when it starts at 7. I get home at 730 and can start watching the recording that's in progress and am able to fast forward through commercials and intermissions until I have caught up and am Live again. This is how it worked with the previous PVR that had local storage.
