DirecTV Device Programmers take heed! (Yeah, you guys over there in India):
There is a bug in the device programming for the R-15 DVR causing it to fail to change the channel to record a program.
Issue: if two shows are scheduled simultaneously, if, just ahead of their scheduled start time, you are watching one of the tuners live with a buffer (meaning you have paused it at some time and then resumed), the R-15 DVR fails to change the channel of that tuner in order to record the two shows.
The result: one of the two scheduled shows is not recorded. This is repeatable and is a serious bug. It happens every time. The issue is a failure on the part of the developers to handle what is known as an "event exception" in the code. Currently, the only workaround is for the viewer to dump any live buffer ahead of the start times in the above scenario by changing the channel.
The programming for the R-15 DVR needs to be corrected and updated as of Oct. 10, 2008.
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DirecTV Device Programmers take heed! (Yeah, you guys over there in India):
There is a bug in the device programming for the R-15 DVR causing it to fail to change the channel to record a program.
Issue: if two shows are scheduled simultaneously, if, just ahead of their scheduled start time, you are watching one of the tuners live with a buffer (meaning you have paused it at some time and then resumed), the R-15 DVR fails to change the channel of that tuner in order to record the two shows.
The result: one of the two scheduled shows is not recorded. This is repeatable and is a serious bug. It happens every time. The issue is a failure on the part of the developers to handle what is known as an "event exception" in the code. Currently, the only workaround is for the viewer to dump any live buffer ahead of the start times in the above scenario by changing the channel.
The programming for the R-15 DVR needs to be corrected and updated as of Oct. 10, 2008.