Dish Network DuoDVR 522, 118523 Using DVR Features, What’s What’s Wrong What You Can Do Happening

Chapter 5

Reference

			What Is Happening			Possible Reason			What to Do
			You set up an event timer,		•	The program time may have			• If the receiver is ON and finds an event timer overlap, it will
			but the timer does not			changed so that the event timer			display the Event Timer Scheduling Conflict menu. You
			operate at all.			overlapped another event timer.			must edit or delete one of the overlapping event timers.
						The program time may have			No event timer will operate if the program time changes by more
						changed by more than twenty-four			than twenty-four hours.
						hours.
			You set up a Once event		•	The program time changed.			• A Once event timer always operates at the actual time of the
			timer, but the timer operates						program.
			at a time different from what
			you expect.
			You stop the operation of an		•	Stopping the event timer applies			• To stop all operations of a repeated event timer, you must delete
			event timer for one showing			only to the current showing of the			the event timer.
			of a program that is repeated			program.			Note: The receiver deletes a Once event timer when it operates.
			(such as a regularly
			scheduled program), but the
			timer operates for the next
			showing.
Using DVR Features
			What’s		What’s Wrong				What You Can Do
		Happening
	You find you can’t			• If the receiver runs out of room to auto			• To make sure you can watch all of a program, on-demand record it instead
	watch part of a			record a program, it starts to erase the				of auto recording it.
	program you’re auto			oldest part of the program to make room			• If you want to be able to watch all of a program you’re auto recording,
	recording.			for new audio and video.				don’t change the channel. You can only auto record for about one hour.
				• When you change the channel, you
				erase what’s stored in auto recording.
				• You can’t watch part of a “live”
				program that hasn’t been broadcast yet,
				because the receiver hasn’t recorded it
				yet.
	You find the			• Maybe you didn’t press the remote			• To on-demand record a program, you must either press the remote control
	receiver didn’t			control RECORD button while you				RECORD button or set an Event Timer. If you set an Event Timer to
	on-demand record			watched the program or set an Event				record the program, maybe the Event Timer was not set up right. See the
	a program.			Timer to record it.				Event Timers table for help.
				• Maybe the receiver ran out of room			• Check the “time Left” on the DishDVR Recorded Events menu.
				to on-demand record the program.				If you “protect” many recorded programs, the receiver may not have
				• You may have had a signal outage				enough room to record any new programs.
				caused by bad weather during the
				recording.
	You find the			If you don’t “protect” a recorded program,			Use the DishDVR Recorded Events menu to “protect” an on-demand
	receiver is missing			and the receiver needs room to record a new			recorded program. This means the receiver will ask you before it records over
	programs you			program, it may record over that recorded			that recorded program. But note, if you “protect” many recorded programs,
	recorded.			program to have room.			the receiver may not have enough room to record any new programs.
	When you open a			You see menu options only when they			You can use only the options you see on the menu. You won’t see all the
	recorded program’s			work. For example, the Start option			options at once. You’ll never see a “Record” option; to record a program you
	info menu, some of			doesn’t show up unless you select a			must either press the remote control RECORD button or set an Event Timer.
	the options seem to			recorded program.
	be missing.
	On-demand			On-demand recording works by program			To record more than one program, or to record parts of one or more programs,
	recording stores			unless you set a manual event timer to start			set a manual event timer.
	only one program,			and stop the recording at the times you set
	or only part of one			yourself.
	program.

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