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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).
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 am recording a random program now, to test. I press play on the recording and can watch back and forth and back/forth several times the part that is recorded, but cannot go past the live which is understandable. I cannot create your issue. Maybe a hockey game recording is different?
I've set up a recording of a baseball game in a couple hours from now. I'll see how it behaves about 30 minutes in to the recording.
I just tried with live Curling but it was already in progress when I started recording. It did start playback at the beginning of the recording which is the behaviour I'm hoping to see. Let's see what happens with the baseball game.
