World Series auto extend falls

Auto extend is currently in beta so it isn’t guaranteed to work every time. As a customer you should record the program airing directly AFTER the sporting event so that in the case the sporting event extends you are already recording the next program set to air. Since you state ‘manual’ auto-extend in your post, this is what I think you need.

I watched the World Series last night. Auto extend worked for me. 

I'm brand new to DTVS and it is certainly better than my last provider, but bottom line is I missed the end of game 1 of the WS. The auto extend failed. In my last several providers, there was a manual extend. IMO, that should be included until auto extend is working properly.

Saturday night's World Series game said the recording would be auto extended.  Not.  The recording stopped before the game ended.  Same with the Notre Dame vs. Syracuse game today.  Beta or not, Directv Stream should not be touting auto extend that does not work.

One would think at the very least an option to manually extend a recording by an hour or two would be baked in to any DVR from the start. I mean it's only something that's been around for over 20 years from other providers.

There certainly should be a way to manually extend a recording - and this has been requested for years (basically since the DVR feature was added 5 years ago).  No clue why it's never been added - while it likely would be a little more involved with a cloud DVR than an on-premise DVR, it doesn't seem like it should be that much additional effort to implement, assuming they keep unique copies of recordings for each subscriber (which they certainly implied was the case at least initially).  If they now share recordings, it would make other (not currently present) features easier for them to provide, but it would make manual extension a significantly bigger issue.

And WRT the auto-extend being in beta - it has existed (in some form) for at least a couple of years.  At least 6 months ago they added it to their description of the DVR, with no claim that it was a "beta" feature.  So that argument - that it shouldn't be depended on - is pretty weak, especially if they don't offer the option of manually extending.  Now, it is possible that the failures aren't completely theirs.  At least initially the feature depended on an in-band signal supplied by the content provider (network) which was there for other reasons, and was only present for some things.  They may base it on other things now (since they claim support for many more sports than they did initially), but clearly they don't have someone watching each sporting event and manually controlling the DVR settings - they still depend on something from the provider, and if it is missing or wrong they won't extend correctly.  But there have been enough reports of problems on programming that shouldn't have errors that it seems likely there are issues in their implementation.

just want to add I also was screwed by auto extend not working (pretty sure game 2 didnt auto extend either, unless it ended before 3 hours).   Was trying to find a copy of game 1 before watching game 2, but ofc its since been spoiled.