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Recording Defaults
This is where you can set the recording options you want the receiver to use
every time it does a recording. We have selected defaults at the factory that
work best in the vast majority of cases, but you may want to change them to
your personal preferences.
When recording a series show you have the option of recording first runs
only, or repeats only, or both.
And you can decide whether to keep only one episode, two, three, four, five,
ten or all. Keep in mind the disc space you have available if you select “Keep
at Most: all” for a show that appears many times in the guide. You may find
it to be a disc space hog.
The Keep Until option lets you keep a recording until you delete it or until
the disc is full, in which case the DVR can delete it automatically if the
disc fills up. A recording that is labeled “Keep Until I Delete” will never
be deleted until you do it manually. Be aware that if all of your recordings
are labeled that way and the disc fills up, no new recordings can be placed
on the disc until you manually delete some of your “Keep Until I Delete”
recordings.
Finally, you may want to adjust the start and stop times of your recordings
to ensure you don’t miss a thing. Keep in mind that starting early and
ending late on all of your recordings may create more recording conflicts
than if you started and stopped on-time (according to the program guide
schedule). If you find that one of your series runs habitually late, it would
be better to adjust that particular series via the Series Manager screen
rather than set the recording defaults (that would affect all of your DVR
recordings) to stop late.
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