Recording programmes - finishing too early

[Knockamillie]

I'm still getting used to my EE TV box after moving from Sky last month.  I'm finding when I record programmes, the recording often stops before the end. Is there a settings option anywhere that lets me extend the time or am I just going to lose the last couple of minutes now and again? 🙈

[Midnight_Voice]

@Knockamillie 

Alas, there isn’t, and this has been a continued gripe about YouView boxes since launch in 2012.

They use a system laughingly called Accurate Recording, where the broadcasters send the Start and Stop signals for each programme, and so can theoretically adjust when they send these to cover the actual start and stop times of the programmes, should they depart from the published schedule.

The trouble is, most of them don’t do this, so if a programme overruns the published schedule, it is cut off at the scheduled time.

The workaround, for any  programme where you absolutely mustn’t miss the end, is to record the programme straight after it, because the Stop for your programme is also the Start for the next one, so your missing bit will be on the front of that next programme.

[Knockamillie]

Thank you.  I will try that as a solution.  I am trying to stream instead of recording but I can get a day ahead with one of my favourites if I record the "first view" option. 😂

[bristolian]

Recording often gives you the advantage of skipping adverts, which isn't always possible from streaming platforms.

[magicjope]

A start, but what about an eight part series where the following programme is not known in advance?

[Knockamillie]

Yes that's very true, and it's an Aussie soap I'm recording and I've realised it's a different programme every day after it 🙈

I'm going to record the second viewing of it because that's immediately before the new episode so I should catch the very end that way albeit a day later than necessary.  🙈😂

[Midnight_Voice]

@magicjope 

The EPG runs forward for a week. You can always find the following programme in good time.

And with the EE App on your phone paired with the box you are recording on, you can even sort this remotely while you are on a trade delegation to China, or something similarly remote.

Nobody said this was convenient 😢

[magicjope]

No it is inconvenient!
I was on Sky and they used to start the recording early and overrun by a few minutes. Surely EE can do this.

Sent from my iPad

[Midnight_Voice]

@magicjope 

EETV are entirely beholden to YouView. So if YouView don’t want to do it - and they don’t, they are still clinging to the fond belief that somebody will make Accurate Recording, and the accurate operating of it mandatory - it won’t happen.

YouView and its finances are a complete mystery to me - in 2016, my one-man consultancy made more profit than they did - and you would think that BT could buy YouView out with the spare change the CEO of BT finds in his trousers each night. But somehow, they are sitting on the IP that EETV rely on, that the main broadcasters rely on, and even that Freely relies on. Even on IP that could allow YouView to support the internet channels that it notoriously won’t.

So BT, having made the Faustian bargain with YouView when BT Vision hit the buffers, have to go cap in hand to them for the smallest thing. And don’t always get it.