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Eliminating partial recordings
If you've watched, say, the first hour of a three-hour recording, is there a way to delete the watched portion to free up space on the DVR? I've looked everywhere and can't find anything on this. Every other DVR service I've ever used has a way to accomplish this.
dcd
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14 years ago
Nope. And your last statement really surprises me. In order to delete a portion of a video on Windows for example, you'd have to load it in movie maker or some other editing program, go through the program and cut it where you wanted. Hardly a time effective solution.
How many of these partially watched programs do you have?
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TexasBrit
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14 years ago
FYI none of the other models of DVR (Dish, cable, FIOS) that I have used will allow you to do this...
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djdicetn
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14 years ago
sdwriter,
Sounds like you need to clean out the clutter of some your older recordings. Of course users dcd and texasbrit won't believe I said that since they are both aware that I am guilty of being a HD movie "hoarder" with two HD DVR's each having a 1.5TB eSATA external drive on them(which stay about 80% full on both of them as I archive older movies to DVD:0)
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sdwriter
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14 years ago
Nope. And your last statement really surprises me. In order to delete a portion of a video on Windows for example, you'd have to load it in movie maker or some other editing program, go through the program and cut it where you wanted. Hardly a time effective solution.
How many of these partially watched programs do you have?
Not really an issue of how many partially watched programs I have. It's not threatening to max out my capacity or anything.
BTW, Cox's digital cable DVRs most definitely have the option of deleting the recording to your current watch point.
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sdwriter
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14 years ago
Cox's digital cable DVRs definitely has that option. The system my wife had before that did as well, but I can't recall right now who she was with.
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sdwriter
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14 years ago
I save to DVD often as well. As I mentioned in an earlier reply, I'm not contending with an almost-full playlist or anything. I just would like the option to keep the last 20 minutes of something I need to watch instead of having to keep the additional 100 or so I no longer need, too. As I also mentioned above, Cox DVRs do offer this functionality.
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djdicetn
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14 years ago
sdwriter,
Seems like a nice capability, but I've been on these forums for about 5 years and your post is the fist I've seen asking about this. Doesn't seem to be on a very universal wish list.......or DirecTV doesn't get very many ex-COX customers:0)
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