Problems with continuous shooting

  • For some time now I’ve noticed a change in shooting behavior when taking continuous shots (two different problems). Does anyone know whether these are malfunctions or whether Swisscom has actually made “worse improvements”? What it’s about:

    1. Until now, Swisscom TV 2.0 always recognized when I had recorded a complete season on a certain channel during a series recording, but, for example, deleted episode 7 due to a recording problem, and then only recorded the corresponding episode as soon as a repeat of this season was shown on the same channel (sometimes a year or more later). Furthermore, it didn’t matter when the episode ran (whether at 8 p.m. or in the middle of the night). Under Recordings/Series I then found the subsequently recorded program in the same “folder” as the other programs.

    Recently I noticed that my recording memory was completely filled, even though I had hardly programmed any new programs. The reason: suddenly, when series recording is activated (which is actually used to record new or missing episodes), all episodes are simply recorded again, even those that already exist, which means I have to check everything and delete duplicate recorded episodes manually. That’s annoying. Especially because there is no option for the recorded series to be sorted by episode, but only chronologically by recording date (which could really be improved!). The fact that Swisscom TV 2.0 was previously smart enough to automatically recognize which episodes were still missing was really perfect. It would be acceptable if that were the case again.

    2. Another problem occurred with a series that I wanted to record on SixxHD. As usual, I simply clicked series recording on one of the broadcasts. But unfortunately only those episodes were recorded that were shown at the exact time (e.g. at 4 p.m.). Any broadcasts on the same channel but at different times of the day were not recorded. The attempt to activate series recording at every broadcast time resulted in a separate folder being created under recordings/series for each broadcast date, and so the overview of episodes that had already been recorded was completely lost. In the end I had around 20 individual recordings and subfolders, but no way to merge them to make things clearer. Is there a solution for this?

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    • @borki1 wrote:

      @Gnu76

      Well it doesn’t work that way for me. “Oldest show/episode first” sorts the recordings by recording date and not by episode. Episode 1 is suddenly followed by episodes 7 and 8, then suddenly 20-23, and then 2-5 etc. complete chaos.


      I have four options under “Sort by” within a series recording: “Newest first”, “Oldest first”, “Newest episode first” and “Oldest episode first”. How many options do you have? For me, “Oldest Show First” is not the same as “Oldest Episode First”.

      If you don’t feel that way, I’m at my wits’ end and apologize for the inconvenience.

      Greeting

      gnu

    I have the same problem (point 1). When it comes to series recordings, it has recently started recording all episodes, not just those that are missing or new. Can someone at Swisscom do something?

    Oh yes, I would also appreciate it if you could sort the recorded episodes not just by recording date, but by episode.

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    4 days later

    @borki1 wrote:

    Oh yes, I would also appreciate it if you could sort the recorded episodes not just by recording date, but by episode.


    You can. Simply press the “Option” button on the remote control within the series recording and select “oldest episode first” or something like that.

    Greeting

    gnu

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    8 days later

    @Gnu76 wrote:


    @borki1 wrote:

    Oh yes, I would also appreciate it if you could sort the recorded episodes not just by recording date, but by episode.


    You can. Simply press the “Option” button on the remote control within the series recording and select “oldest episode first” or something like that.

    Greetings

    Gnu


    Hello Gnu, “oldest episode first” is exactly what doesn’t help me (or apparently borki1 either). If you recorded episodes 1-23 of a certain series in 2016, but then had to delete 4-5 episodes due to recording errors and then, for example, record them again a year later when the series was repeated, you don’t have the episodes listed in the correct order. Why on earth would anyone care WHEN an episode was recorded? The only thing that matters is the effective order of the episodes, regardless of whether they were recorded yesterday or a year ago.

    P.S.: The problems I described in my first post are still current, and since Swisscom customer service is completely useless, I would like to know if anyone here would have any advice.

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    “Oldest episode first” sorts exactly like this: e.g. Season 1 Episode 2 then Season 1 Episode 3 etc. Regardless of when it was recorded. For example, I recorded “Parks and Recreation” in the middle of the second season and later the episodes from the first and second seasons came back. So everything was sorted like that and afterwards I was able to watch the series in order from season 1, episode 1.

    Greeting

    gnu

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    @Gnu76

    So it doesn’t work that way for me. “Oldest show/episode first” sorts the recordings by recording date and not by episode. Episode 1 is suddenly followed by episodes 7 and 8, then suddenly 20-23, and then 2-5 etc. complete chaos.

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    @borki1 wrote:

    @Gnu76

    Well it doesn’t work that way for me. “Oldest show/episode first” sorts the recordings by recording date and not by episode. Episode 1 is suddenly followed by episodes 7 and 8, then suddenly 20-23, and then 2-5 etc. complete chaos.


    I have four options under “Sort by” within a series recording: “Newest first”, “Oldest first”, “Newest episode first” and “Oldest episode first”. How many options do you have? For me, “Oldest Show First” is not the same as “Oldest Episode First”.

    If you don’t feel that way, I’m at my wits’ end and apologize for the inconvenience.

    Greeting

    gnu

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    a month later

    @Gnu76

    Suddenly it works for us too. But we can’t explain why because we don’t do anything differently than before. Meanwhile, if we choose “Oldest Episode First”, the episodes will also be listed in order - which was not the case before. Bug?

    But just as a note to Swisscom: regarding the naming of the sorting options: “Newest first” and “Newest episode first”? Is it just us who finds this strange? How about “Sort by”:

    - Recording date

    - Episode

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