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• Nick2 Member Posts: 40

  2 January 2013, 12:34PM edited 26 September 2013, 8:33AM

  Hi,
  
  I agree; it seriously ****** me off that it doesn't just continue to play (with a slight buffer).
  
  Every PVR I've owned has done that, except YV, which just stops!

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• gomez Member Posts: 2,073 ✭✭

  2 January 2013, 1:10PM edited 2 January 2013, 1:12PM

  The trick is to switch to the channel before you start chase playing. To avoid spoilers mute the sound and don't look at the TV until you have pressed the Menu/Youview button.
  
  None of the many PVRs I have used have switched automatically to the channel being chase-played.

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• Keith Member, Super User Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭

  2 January 2013, 1:19PM edited 4 March 2017, 10:29AM

  Whilst none of the PVRs I have had have had this feature I would see it as a nice touch if it were implemented.
  
  This idea to have chase play seamlessly switch to the live channel when you catch up has come up previous on the forum here. It is item 65 in the consolidated list of improvements and feature requests

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• Unknown

  2 January 2013, 1:25PM edited 2 January 2013, 1:25PM

  Nick2 said:

  Hi,
  
  I agree; it seriously ****** me off that it doesn't just continue to play (with a slight buffer).
  
  Every PVR I've owned has done that, except YV, which just stops!

  And yet Sky+, the most widely used PVR in the UK, doesn't.

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• Unknown

  2 January 2013, 1:28PM edited 26 September 2013, 8:33AM

  Such features aren't simple to implement and require even further processing on the part of the box.
  
  To ensure the box doesn't start randomly turning over to channels at the end of every recording, it would have to have to check if the recording you were watching was still in progress when it hit the 'end'.
  
  Only then could it switch over.

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• Piers Member Posts: 561 ✭✭✭✭✭

  2 January 2013, 1:37PM edited 23 February 2017, 2:13PM

  Hi Scott. I agree that it's annoying, and it's not how we designed it to work. We've specified that the recording should continue to play "as live" once you reach the current end of the recording, rather than ending. We can't fix this ourselves as it's not YouView code, but we'll let you know when it's been scheduled by Humax.

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• Keith Member, Super User Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭

  2 January 2013, 2:44PM edited 4 March 2017, 10:29AM

  Thanks Piers - it is good to know this behaviour is already captured in the YouView spec. I've updated item 65 in the consolidated list of improvements and feature requests to note that fact

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• Scott1 Member Posts: 51

  3 January 2013, 11:07AM edited 21 November 2016, 6:25PM

  Thanks Piers - understand the limitation. When an in-progress recording currently reaches its end, would it be possible to add "watch live" as a second option box under the current option (which I think is currently something like"programme has ended - click OK")?
  
  While this solution may not be totally seamless, it would at least be a quick way of switching to the correct channel. If I am watching a recording while it's in progress, I have usually avoided that channel to avoid spoilers.

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• traces Member Posts: 199

  4 January 2013, 10:29PM edited 24 November 2016, 8:25PM

  When watching a recording and catching up to real time, automatically watching live is by far the best solution. Thank You Piers, YouView and HUMAX.

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• AndyBurton Member Posts: 11

  18 September 2013, 9:26AM edited 18 September 2013, 9:26AM

  Any update on this? It's a constant annoyance!

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• stormy Member Posts: 1,026 ✭✭

  18 September 2013, 9:38AM edited 3 March 2017, 6:12PM

  Soon I expect, youview can't tell us when, but soon. Sometime, maybe or maybe not.

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