barreleye
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Re: Daily recorded shows missing in web browser
I can't believe you're pressing this. This is not the problem. Please start your own thread to ask questions instead of making people experiencing actual issues refute the red herrings you introduce into their threads. What you're doing here is neither helpful nor appreciated.12Views0likes2CommentsRe: Daily recorded shows missing in web browser
Will do. Before I leave, I want to note that it worked fine this morning for two programs, then when the second ended, and I returned to the Saved Recordings list, it was back to Anderson Cooper being first in the list, and 3/28 being the most recent recording available for the program currently being recorded, whose series was now 13th in the list. Again, this is a new problem, starting within the last couple of weeks. I've had the service for a year.34Views0likes1CommentRe: Daily recorded shows missing in web browser
No, I'm not downloading recordings. That would be unusual, and I wouldn't have mentioned the behavior of two other devices as a comparison if I had been treating one specially. The only thing more unusual than downloading recordings on one device would be downloading recordings on three devices. I've never downloaded a recording, just streamed.37Views0likes6CommentsRe: Daily recorded shows missing in web browser
Whoops! Right after I posted, I clicked on Stephanie Ruhle to watch Monday's show, and the 3/29 show was the latest available to me, and when I returned to the recordings list, Anderson Cooper was first again. So, I'm right back to the problem that caused me to start this thread.52Views0likes3CommentsDaily recorded shows missing in web browser
I use Edge in Windows 11 for most of my viewing, and several times over the last couple of weeks, my recorded shows newer than a few days to a couple of weeks become unavailable. They're present in the phone app and my XG2 box, so this is a browser problem. Unfortunately, quitting the browser and restarting doesn't typically help, but it does randomly start working again at some point. Like right now. This was the second time while composing this message that I quit Edge and restarted it, and the second time, all my programs recorded Monday showed up. I'm talking about CNBC weekday programs, The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, Erin Burnett, etc. Before they came back, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper from 4/7 (Sunday) was the first show to appear under "Saved / Recordings" viewed by "Most Recent", while for other programs like Fast Money, I would see the latest recording typically dated 3/28 or thereabouts. Now, Stephanie Ruhle appears first in the list, as it always does at this time of day when everything is working correctly, with 17 shows in front of Anderson Cooper, and all the recording that should be there for each show are there again. Please fix.88Views0likes12CommentsRe: Fast forwarding randomly causes recording to go back to beginning
Which device? For what you're talking about, they have hard drive based DVR boxes, at least two very different kinds of cloud-based DVR boxes, and then cloud devices like iPhone apps and web browsers running on computers. The behavior can vary greatly between these devices, but if I were to guess, what you're describing sounds like an app or web browser, where the service is subpar to put it politely.162Views0likes0CommentsRe: Using a PC instead of a cable box.
Probably any PC with an HDMI out will be good enough. I happen to use a fairly high-powered PC with RTX 3060 Ti video card to watch fullscreen on a 720p 10" secondary monitor in Firefox while I use my PC for other things. I use Autohotkey to send keyboard shortcuts to the unfocused Firefox window, and it allows me to do things like implement skips of various lengths (e.g. Win+Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow to skip 2.5 minutes), like I did in YouTube TV. I can also use a remote control when the window is focused, but explaining that would really get into the weeds. The problem is that only playback can be controlled this way. To use the guide, select from the DVR list, etc, you need a keyboard/mouse, not really friendly to sitting on your sofa. While watching in a browser has a number of advantages important to me, it's not a great experience in general. Cox's Cloud DVR (rebranded Xfinity, actually) is problematic in browsers: Skips can rarely hang or more commonly incur a 10-20 second delay without doing anything. It mostly works, though. To watch an in-progress recording, I can't let my watch point get within a couple minutes of the current "end" of the recording, i.e. the "live point", lest it rebuffer every minute or so. It's not smart enough to allow for the necessary buffer. Watching Live TV is pure streaming, with no pausing the program, skipping back, etc. If you want to do that, you need a Cox box. Worse, for news channels like CNN (and probably all all channels) , Live TV quality is WORSE than DVR recordings. The scrolling text at the bottom is lower res and stutters a bit, and there is judder for all motion, even the limited movements of the news anchors sitting at their desks. This doesn't happen with DVR recordings. Those shortcomings aside, at least there aren't any micro audio dropouts like I observed on my iPad, which caused me to give up on that a few months ago and go back to using my PC and monitor, which I'd used with YouTube TV the last 5 years. Those dropouts are really noticeable when using headphones as I normally do. Also, using a single keypress is a lot better than tapping a bunch of times on an iPad to get the thing to skip over a commercial block!10Views0likes0CommentsRe: Cloud DVR performance in web browsers has really deteriorated
Any chance this problem will ever be looked at? It's been almost two months, and I've encountered exactly the same problems within an hour oftrying to use web browsers because the experience with Apple products (iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV) suffers from annoying audio glitches that I talked about in another thread. Those glitches are reproducible and predictable, following a pattern, and when I have time, I'll start a new thread on that. However, I'd much rather go back to using a web browser, but the service has become completely unusable, and apparently, it's been that way since I reported it here almost two months ago.15Views0likes0Comments