Can you record longer than 30 minutes after end?

[Krimco]

I lost end of Blue jays opener and last of home run derby.

Hopefully Bell takes this as suggestion.  Rogers was 3 hours

[dks]

I understand that. Unfortunately no one can control the time or outcome of any sporting event, including the length of the event. Likewise, recording a TV show is a function of preprogramming, not real time. In real time, live TV says, “We join our regular programming, already in progress.” There is no technical way to get around preprogramming rules. 

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[Micron]

I don't get your point about "preprogramming rues". It seems to me that the simple solution would be to provide more than 30 minutes of time when extending a scheduled recording. Someone wrote here that Rogers provided 3 hours. I remembered it as 1.5 hours but perhaps I'm mistaken and it was 3. I will have to try the suggestion to record the following program as well. I suppose then that a 30 minute extension would be pointless since you could simply set up a recording for as many following programs as you think you'd need, or just add 30 minutes to the scheduled recording for the following show.

[dks]

Thanks for your reply. Programs running overtime are limited to sports, usually. I'm not saying your wish it won't happen, but you can suggest it as an improvement to be made in the next software release. Currently we are all at the mercy of system programing. And programming isn't always easy to change. 

[Dude_99]

I had bell satellite and I could record 90 mins extra. This 30 mins is not enough. If I can't watch sports the way I need to, I'd probably cancel all my bell services because sports is the crux. 

[Micron]

Ditto. It'll cost me $75 to get out of the service next year, but it will be worth it. I tried the "record the next program" thing for game 5 of MLB World Series. In the bottom of the 8th my extra 30 minutes on the 1st recording timed out so I went to the next show that I recorded. It was a 30 minute program. Guess where I ended up in that 2nd recording - at the end of it. Go figure, but that makes sense.It was only by luck that I found a channel that let me pick it up in the 9th.

[Rperetz123]

Recording just stopped in an overtime game, how on the name of God we can record sports games with only 30 min after scheduled?

Please bring it back to an hour attest.

[dks]

One factor to keep in mind is that cable providers are limited in area by geography and license from the CRTC. That can't be changed. Back at the dawn of time (the 1970's) cable providers were given geographic territories to serve. They still serve those territories and can only expand by buying other smaller cable providers. In my city, cable was first offered by Maclean-Hunter, who were bought out by Rogers. Cogeco isn't available at all. If Cogeco is available to you, there may be other internet providers using Cogeco's cable and reselling it to you. But the only physical cable provision comes from Cogeco. The same is true of Bell fibre. Bell resells fibre service to other providers but the the fibre belongs to Bell.  

[Squirrel0]

The real reason is its stored on the cloud. Bell satellite is 60 or 90 mins, I was on it., cause it's on ur local pvr. Now it's stored on the cloud and bell, iam pretty sure buys storage from a cloud supplier, can't afford to have it's 10's of thousands of subscribers the extra time. That's also probably why they also implemented the 60 day expiration.  So ur only choice is bell satellite or Cogeco or even Shaw

[Micron]

"can't afford to have it's 10's of thousands of subscribers the extra time. " I doubt that. It's probably a matter of being tight-fisted. Rogers allowed at least 90 minutes, but I can't recall for sure. Someone else posted that it was 3 hours with Rogers, and the recordings were stored on the cloud so that can't be the reason Bell is so restrictive. For the time being, I will just set the next 2 or 3 hours of programming to be recorded. But to make that work, you must not use the extended recording option - only set the next programs to record without extension.

[Rperetz123]

I am not asking for extra time, you still have a limit of the number hours you can record.

I am doing it now manually by recording the shows after the sports event.

So it should not change much for Bell adding the one hour option.

[4Paws]

looking for suggestions on how to extend recording time past the 30 minutes. i watch sporting events and if they go into overtime etc, i don't get the full program

[WelshTerrier]

Good Day.

You can only set your to "Stop recording" Fibe TV Cloud PVR at the scheduled time for any one of the following time stop time increments: 5min., 10min., 15min., 30min.

Your only other option would be to record the program that is coming on afterwards.

Take care.

[Rperetz123]

Any news on this, the workaround to record the next show is very painful. Why bell does not give one hour more what the difference for recoding the next show.

I am considering canceling.

[WelshTerrier]

Good Day.

You can only set your to "Stop recording" Fibe TV Cloud PVR at the scheduled time for any one of the following time stop time increments: 5min., 10min., 15min., 30min.

Your only other option would be to record the program that is coming on afterwards.

Take care.

[Rperetz123]

I am aware of the annoying workaround, I need someone from Bell to see this post and let us know if they will correct it.

Paying 200 a month with this issue is unbelievable.