Any idea how to Pause, Fast Forward, or Rewind live tv?

[merban]

Help!  my remote doesn't respond when i try to use keys on live TV.  I can only perform Pause, forward, or rewind on DVR not live TVshows.  Isn't this supposed to be possible?  It was with my previous cable service provider and i miss it.  Thanks for any help.

[Joe01880]

You should be able to pause live TV. After it has been paused for a while you should be able to skip ahead to the point where it is live again or FF to the point where it is live.

You should be able to skip backwards to the point where the buffer starts or also Rewind to the point where the buffer starts. Once you skip or RR back on live TV it is no longer live, you are woking within the time buffer of the DVR function.

[merban]

Thanks.  So any idea why when i try to use any of the function keys for pause, back or fwd it just ignores me?  I can tell that the box is on the remote light flashes when i press one of the function keys just doesn't take the action.  I have mutliple boxes in my house - do you know if this should this work on all of them or only the main box?  Thanks again.   

[KenAF]

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@merban wrote:
Thanks.  So any idea why when i try to use any of the function keys for pause, back or fwd it just ignores me?  I can tell that the box is on the remote light flashes when i press one of the function keys just doesn't take the action.  I have mutliple boxes in my house - do you know if this should this work on all of them or only the main box?  Thanks again.   

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You can only pause and rewind liveTV on the DVR.  You cannot pause and rewind liveTV on the other STBs in your home.

You can pause and rewind liveTV on a DVR because it is always recording the current channel to its hard drive.  The STBs don't have a hard drive.

Message Edited by KenAF on 03-15-2009 10:41 PM

[merban]

that sucks ... i have viewing capability with the dvr on all tvs but you only have the ability to record on the main hub which means you also apprantly only have the ability to pause, ffd and rew on the main hub not the additional boxes. 

At least you helped me solve the mystery even though i'm disapointed in the outcome.  Thanks

[MTSimm]

I agree, that sucks!. I was told by a verizon support person that you could pause live tv from any of the 3 rooms as long as you had the mult-room dvr. I dropped DISH because of this constant mis-information and bad customer service. Also, the documentation from the MR-DVR says you can pause from the other tv's. And just because the hard drive is not on the remote tv, doesn't mean you can't pause from the remote. I had a multiroom dvr from DISH and you could because they each use their own tuner and share a hard drive, this is just a different h/w configuration that in my opinion, is sub-par for today's components. On another note, does anyone know if you can delete from the dvr recordings from a remote tv, or is this feature only avail. on the MRDVR too?

[merban]

You can't delete from the remote tvs and that sucks as well.  Basically, you can only drive from the mother ship.  This was definintely not made clear to me when i asked questions about mutli-room. 

[DzWR]

Reason being is the DVR constantly records live tv while you watch it, the other boxes don't have a hard drive to do so.  The multiroom service only pulls previously recorded information onto the other stbs in the house.  They can't mimic a dvr with live tv simply because they don't have their own hard drive to save the currently watched show.

[glennauve]

I have the new HD DVR box. I seem to be having a number of glitches. Among them is that it refuses to rewind live TV. I am watching a program and want to go back. I hit the rewind button and it shows me the rewind arrows on screen but the program does not rewind.

I am also having problems intermittently when I change channels. Usually when going backwards the program guide box at the bottom of the screen will change to the previous channel but the actual program on the screen stays the same. Then if I go forward nothing happens.

Is there some way to reset the box? Do I need a new one? I just had FiOS installed less than a week ago.

[crazyray]

You actually can pause live TV, but only if its being recorded on the main DVR.

Try it now:   On the DVR, start recording something.

Now on the remote STB, go into "DVR" and play the recording live.  You will be able to pause, play, etc. even though the recording is live.

Granted, this is nowhere near as good as you are used to, but I have learned to live with it.