Recording a show in progress
I'm inquiring to find out if this has been fixed or added as an option, as it is EXTREMELY frustrating.
How is it that as a function of "Record", while remaining on the same channel, I cannot recor...
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The best way to record an entire program is to schedule the recording. When you record a program in-progress, it records the live stream, not the buffer. (I remember when it recorded from the buffer, but that was a long time ago). Contour and Cox TV both record live. If you want to watch a program later that's already in progress, you should begin recording at the point you begin viewing. If it was the current channel, up to the last 30 minutes will be in the buffer for Contour (hour for Cox TV). You can reverse until the start of the buffer and watch until the point when you began recording. I've done this for sporting events I prefer to watch delayed in order to enable fast forward through timeouts and half-times. Recording is just to ensure I don't miss any of the game should I switch to another game during half-time.
I just upgraded from the "long time ago" system, so I'm just finding this out. Things I know I want to record, I schedule. Many times I don't know I want to record something until it has started (and maybe I am called away). It isn't terrible, but it is annoying to have less capabilities than I used to, though in other areas I have more.
It turns out Cox TV will record from the buffer. I just tested recording the current channel from the buffer with Cox TV and it worked. The recording started from approximately 25 minutes earlier (when I selected the current channel). It has to be a buffered channel. That's the last <number of channels that may be watched/recorded simultaneously> channels that have been viewed since the cable box was last turned on. A program in-progress can only be recorded from the start of what's in the buffer. You can't turn to a random channel for the first time and record a program in-progress from the beginning. Have you tried recording an in-progress program with Contour that you've watched from the beginning, i.e. entire program is in the buffer?
