topic Re: Recording/veiwing options in Sky Q

Recording/veiwing options

utterlyfedup — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:37:09 GMT

Just upgraded to SKY Q and cannot find the user defined function where you can choose which point in time you want to start viewing a recording,,( rather than fast forwarding which is cumbersome) Used this a lot when we had SKY+ HD. Surely this must still be available.!

Re: Recording/veiwing options

Daniel0210 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:49:39 GMT

@utterlyfedup

Use the voice option. Press and hold in the voice button and say "go to xx minutes".

There are no reminders bookmarks or slow motion replays.

Re: Recording/veiwing options

nigea99 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:12:00 GMT

@utterlyfedup wrote:

Just upgraded to SKY Q and cannot find the user defined function where you can choose which point in time you want to start viewing a recording,,( rather than fast forwarding which is cumbersome) Used this a lot when we had SKY+ HD. Surely this must still be available.!

hi @utterlyfedup

As @Daniel0210 says voice control is your friend here

I find handy controls are :
Skip nn minutes
Go To nn minutes
Back nn minutes

You can use hours, minutes & seconds or mix e.g. Go to 1hour 15 minutes

Skip nn minutes is very handy for adverts and you get used to the length on regular used channels (Many are around the 4 minute mark)

You can also say Go To Start

Voice control in general is very useful - see
https://www.sky.com/help/articles/sky-q-voice-control-commands

BTW ~~pressing the FF (or Rewind) key & holding it down also engages a very fast skip~~

Edit - Correction - For high speed forward / rewind press Pause or other button (e.g. up arrow) to bring up Time status bar then press & hold right arrow (or left arrow)

(I think you can tell, I use voice control instead)

Re: Recording/veiwing options

nolte — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:21:14 GMT

Also note in addition to the 2 responses above,

Is the option you are looking for is to set how long before and after a programme starts and end, that your recording starts and finishes.

So if you set it at 3 minutes before and after, an hour long programme starting at 9pm would record from 8:57 to 10:03.

Unfortunately this option is not available on sky q.

Recordings start 60-90 seconds before the schedule and end 90 seconds after the scheduled end.

Sometimes (with bbc particularly), it may be good to record the next programme too.