As a former Dish Network subscriber, I find that the timers on U-verse are lacking. I would suggest that you all look at the way Dish does it and work on some of their concepts.
I like to record the second showing of alot of shoes (HGTV, Syfy, Food, Travel, etc.) all show their first runs multiple times the first day. By recording it at 1 am instead of 9pm I leave the ablity to record another HD feed from another channel that doesn't. Unfortunately the only way to do this is to set a timer that records first and re-runs which results in many re-reruns being recorded. Here are some suggestions that really shouldn't be hard to implement which will help to elevate the DVR to first class.
Some or all of these features may be there, but I've had this for a few months and can't seem to get these types of timers working.
1. A plain and simple repeating timer (record this channel on this day or weekdays or weekends. So I can say record this channel every Monday at 1 AM or Mon - Friday at 1 AM or everyday at 1 AM.
2. The ablility to record (or at least only keep) the last x aired episodes (versus recorded). That way shows that air re-runs all the time won't record, but it will keep the last 10 most recent episodes.
3. Dish uses "new episodes" versus "first run", this allows for anyshow where the original airing is skipped due to conflict to be recorded at a later time. Last night 15 episodes (14 re-runs and 1 second airing of a first run) of a show recorded so I could get the second airing of a new episode at 1 AM. I then have to delte all the extras. My timer is set to record "first and re-run" at "1 AM" any day. I have no idea why it recorded many episodes all night long.
3. Conflict resolution - Dish does this very well, if there are no timer spaces avialble it looks for the next time the episode is aired and lets you know and will record it then for you. It then can do this every time.
Just some suggestions.
dhascall
