Short PAUSE time

[briancros]

Changed from Virgin recently.   Virgin let the system "Pause" for over an hour.

Sky about a minute!    Not good enough.   Power Saving system and no user control?  Not good enough.

How do we get Sky to change it?!

[TimmyBGood]

@briancros 

Pause time would be based on the on-board volatile storage, so there's almost certainly no way it can be changed on the current hardware release.

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@briancros wrote:

Changed from Virgin recently.   Virgin let the system "Pause" for over an hour.

Sky about a minute!    Not good enough.   Power Saving system and no user control?  Not good enough.

How do we get Sky to change it?!

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I actually tested this a couple of months back and the pause period was just under 30 minutes on a live channel.

However as the power saving kicks in, you have to pick up the remote after 10 mins and 20 mins in order for the pause to continue and the puck to not shut off and go into standby. If I remember correctly after I picked the remote up a second time the pause continued and just before I hit the 30 minute window and got a third message to pick up the remote the Tv channel started playing again and unpaused itself automatically.

[Stephen+Mourton]

@MarkGoldsmith  That's all well and good, the problem is when a lot of us put it on pause it can be because we have to leave the room for longer than 10 minutes so can't touch the remote.

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@Stephen+Mourton wrote:

@MarkGoldsmith  That's all well and good, the problem is when a lot of us put it on pause it can be because we have to leave the room for longer than 10 minutes so can't touch the remote.

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I agree its completely stupid, i'm just explaining how it currently operates.

[Fothergill1]

@Stephen+Mourton  I agree that it is very annoying, it happened to me earlier today when I went to the kitchen to make coffee and then got distracted with something else.

I was doing a little research on a Freely compatible TV for the bedroom a couple of days ago.  Freely stated  that it can pause most live TV for up to 15 minutes.  So it is not just Sky that has the limitation.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Fothergill1 wrote:

Freely stated  that it can pause most live TV for up to 15 minutes.  So it is not just Sky that has the limitation.

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I wonder if that's a budgetary decision to only fit a small amount of solid state storage, perhaps, or a more fundamental rights issue.

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@Fothergill1 wrote:

@Stephen+Mourton  I agree that it is very annoying, it happened to me earlier today when I went to the kitchen to make coffee and then got distracted with something else.

I was doing a little research on a Freely compatible TV for the bedroom a couple of days ago.  Freely stated  that it can pause most live TV for up to 15 minutes.  So it is not just Sky that has the limitation.

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Thats interesting to know that Freely have a similarish limit.

[Fothergill1]

@MarkGoldsmith by way of confirmation it says 15 minutes on this Freely FAQ as well as at the bottom of the page under "Legal Bits".  I note you also only need 10 mbps.