How to view old recording whilst recording new programme?

astral69

astral69

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My Satellite Setup
Dreambox 7020Si receiver, PLi image loaded and Irdeto and Viaccess cards installed. Dishes for Nilesat + Hotbird with lnb's for BADR and Eurobird 9
My Location
Middle East
I time shift most of my TV viewing.
It started a few years ago when I was married and had kids and had to respond to "Dad, can we..............?"

How to I view old recordings on my 7020 whilst a new recording is being made?

The File menu does not seem to work whilst the machine is in record mode.

Whatever happened to multi-tasking??

PLi Jade image.
 
When recording a program Press the UP key on the remote in File Mode and you'll see the list of recorded programs - select one and you can play it. There will be a slight glitch in the (new) recording when you play the (old) recorded program.

I've just tested this as I've never tried it and it seems to work OK.

Hope that makes sense. Please test it and let me know. If it works I'll add it to the Guide.
 
mhku said:
When recording a program Press the UP key on the remote in File Mode and you'll see the list of recorded programs - .....
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Just double checked here and it works fine, at least with Gemini.

Its probably worth mentioning here that you can also watch channels that are on the same frequency and symbol rate on a single tuner system by pressing the up/down arrows.

If you are trying this on encrypted channels, you need to change a softcam setting.

Go to 'Blue Panel -> Camd Setup -> All Camd's' and check the box labelled "can handle two services"
 
When recording a program Press the UP key on the remote in File Mode and you'll see the list of recorded programs - select one and you can play it. There will be a slight glitch in the (new) recording when you play the (old) recorded program.
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Yes that works on PLi, it was just a matter of knowing which buttons to press

Its probably worth mentioning here that you can also watch channels that are on the same frequency and symbol rate on a single tuner system by pressing the up/down arrows.
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That is a neat trick.
Pressing the UP button shows what channels are available on the transponder
and any can be selected without upsetting the recording.

Thanks guys
 
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