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I get this too. Mine’s a XR4500, and I’ll have to provide the iptv version later. But—while not every time—frequently the box will arbitrarily stop recording long before the end of the time that I have programmed. In the case of a 3-hour show, it has recorded only 90 minutes…but it has also been less - sometimes ALOT less. I did discover that if I enter the PVR section to see if it is indeed recording as I have set it to…it will stop at that moment without telling me. Therefore—hours later when I sit down to watch my 3-hour recording…I discover that it’s only 90 minutes long (or less). The short-term solution is to NOT enter the PVR app during the recording—which seems to solve the problem—but it creates a “gun-shy” opinion about the box; I’m afraid to interact with it in ANY way when it’s recording, which is frustrating.

This dish user fellow is a great ass(et) to this forum. Very respectful - very helpful. I’m so glad that supreme oracles like this take time out of their busy schedules to contribute useful & supportive comments.

This dish user fellow is a great ass(et) to this forum. Very respectful - very helpful. I’m so glad that supreme oracles like this take time out of their busy schedules to contribute useful & supportive comments.

I had a brain fart re: the USB stick. Indeed it was a 3.0, but the capacity was 64GB, not 32. I have more than one of the exact same shape/color…and I thought I had inserted the 32. So the Buzz formatting was fine after all, but - as suggested - I’ve removed it for awhile in order to experiment a bit. Sorry for the false alarm!

Yeah - the supposed capacity of the stick is suspicious to be sure. Your point is well taken; remove it and just stick with the internal ROM and see how it goes. As for blaming the box for 'not-the-fault-of-the-box' issues...I didn't. I just said I was having trouble. I acknowledge that the people here have more in-depth experience/knowledge about these devices than I do - but I'm trying. I have a friend & colleague that procured the box for me, and I hope & expect that he will be able to assist. Re: the VOD... When this box first arrived (pre-BETA5) as soon as I entered the VOD app, there would be a huge list of shows appear at the left side of the screen. Before I did anything. Then--as soon as I began entering letters into the search box--the list would re-sort to reflect my search parameters. By the time I had entered "on p" (oh en <space> pee) there would only be 3 or 4 choices...and my target show would be one of them. Perfect. As expected. However, post-BETA5, when I first enter the VOD app, nothing comes up. Zero. Essentially a blank screen. And if I begin plugging in letters, that produces no results. Zero. And the BETA5 update is the only thing that has changed. Absolutely everything else is the exact same. Okay - I'm willing to accept that a given service may not get a show into VOD within 12 hours following its live broadcast...but there should be plenty of other stuff available in there like there was before. Not ZERO. I admit it - I'm a novice. I'm doing my best. I knew that the whole BuzzTV experience was still evolving, and I acknowledge that the BETA5 update came with a bug warning. No argument. But I am trying to pass along the details of my experience in a respectful manner in the hope that somebody will spot something. And/or offer some troubleshooting ideas (such as pulling the USB stick - which I now have. And recording just a few minutes to see what happens, which I'm in the middle of) So I am listening. TIA!

Thanks. Oh man - I'm having alotta trouble. First the USB stick: It's a USB3.0 32GB, which I formatted on a PC to FAT32. It seemed to work fine in the box 'pre-BETA5', but the update appears to have deleted (or lost access to) the 2 recordings that were stored there. No matter - they were corrupted anyway. Therefore - yes - this evening I used the box to format it, and it now shows as having 61GB of space!! That should be impossible from a 32GB drive unless the box uses compression(?) The use of the REC button: yes - I had tried pressing it when a show was highlighted in the Guide, but I soon discovered that as the member said I had to press OK in order to REC. VOD: before and after the BETA5 update I had been able to select my Favorites list, and then run a search for my show. It would pop up long before I typed its whole name. But this evening there's nothing. No hits whatsoever - not even the usual list of 'maybe-you-meant-this-title?' The screen stays empty. Zero suggestions...even if I type in the whole name. Nothing comes up at all. S01E01 and S01E02 were originally broadcast on 07/22 & 07/23 respectively. And it was only a day or so later that they both appeared on VOD. However, S01E03 and S01E04 were broadcast 07/29 & 07/30 and they are nowhere to be seen on VOD. Mind you, they are re-broadcasted a couple times a day on CH52...and when I see one coming up I manually schedule a recording. It does start recording, and after 3 hours when I look at it it says it's 3 hours long. But when I say WATCH it either opens with the absolute last half-second of the show, or it plays just fine but is in reality only a minute or two in length. I truly believe this particular box is NFG.

220731 Update: The BETA5 update successfully installed early this morning. But it fixed nothing for me... (This has occurred three times. Always the same...) * I scan into the future a few days & locate my show in the Guide. I highlight it & press REC. Nothing happens (which is not a huge surprise, because this box behaves nothing like my usual TV provider PVR). So... * I pull up the PVR and set it to manually record for 3 hours on CH52 on Friday starting at 21h00. Okay - it's set. * Friday at some random time after 21h00 I do these two things: (1) fire up the TV and look at CH52. Yup - the show is on, and yup - there is a red REC on the screen. Perfect. (2) pull up the PVR. Yup - it has created an entry, and it says it is going to record for 3 hours. Perfect. * Early Saturday morning I fire up the TV and pull up the PVR. I select the entry--which says it is 3 hours long--and I select WATCH. There's a flash, and I'm back at the PVR home screen. Almost every time (see next line). In any case, there is absolutely ZERO playback. No video & no audio. Zip. * I perform the same sequence of steps for the show on Saturday; three hours starting at 21h00. And it supposedly records 3 hours starting at 21h00. But when I go to WATCH it after it's over, it either does the same as above, or it opens on the last millisecond of the show--with the progress bar all the way to the right--and sits there frozen. Then it dumps me back into the PVR home screen. I have recorded a 3-hour show seven times since getting the box. Sometimes by manually programming, and sometimes by pressing REC at the beginning of the broadcast. And not once have I been able to watch it. Not once. Also... * On a few occasions, I ran a search in VOD for my show. After entering a couple of letters it popped up. I could watch S01E01 or S01E02. Great. And I did that, because the PVR never worked. But a few days later (following two more nights of unsuccessful programming) I ran that same search...and it found nothing. No hits. It's as if the show never existed - including those two first episodes, which I KNOW should still be available. Gone. Evaporated. WTF??

I jumped thru the hoops, but the update didn’t d/l. Apparently it puts some requests in a queue…so that’s where I am now. I’m grateful for your help - if I could run another cuppla questions up the pole it would be very helpful. This has occurred more than once. (I didn’t realize that it had happened the first time) and I’m still incredulous that it *does* happen. I schedule a recording (or start one with the REC button) and—‘X’ minutes after it has begun—I enter the PVR to verify that it is indeed there. Yup - it’s there, and shows that it has recorded ‘X’ minutes. BUT… the act of entering the PVR to check the recording halts the recording! I know this because—once I’ve verified that it’s recording I walk away for awhile, but when I come back to watch it I find that it actually stopped recording at the moment I checked it. Is this typical? Even worse - if I say: “Oh well- I might as well watch what I have” I launch the recording (which clearly says it is over 2 hours long) and all it does is return to the PVR screen. Zero playback. I tried a few times with the same result. I even took a video. Very annoying.

I always like to stay current with updates. What will v5.0 do for me, please?

You're absolutely right - I remember now. When it didn't find the show title I asked it to SEARCH for the name of the channel instead...which was successful. Sorry I misspoke! And now you want to verify my version: 4.0.530 (updated 07/12/2022)

(First-ever post) Hey - I'm accustomed to my PVR, and I'm therefore annoyed by several of the features/functions (and failures) of this service. I'd be grateful for a little help, please... The device came to me BNIOB on Thu. afternoon. The first thing I did was run a search for the show title to discover which channel it was on. Yep - it popped right up. Excellent. So--on Fri at 21h00 I watched the show. (S01/E01) No problems. Fast-forward to Sat afternoon (220723) Now I'm going to set up E02. Just for fun I ran another search. This time - no hits. (??) But--since I knew the time & channel--I looked in the guide and there it was. (Why it couldn't be found in the SEARCH I do not know) So I programmed the box to record the 3-hour show starting at 21h00 last night (220723), and this morning when I returned home to watch it, I found that it had --as usual--recorded only about 9 seconds. That's it. So - okay - they're showing re-broadcasts steadily. I'll just record the Saturday night show at a later date. I run another search. Still not found. (??) So I pull it up in the guide. Yep - scheduled to play at 15h00 today (Sun. 220724) But it doesn't tell me which episode it is!! WTF?? So I set it up anyway, and I happened to be free to check it just after 3, and it was E01. So I stopped & erased the recording. Now I still need to record E02 (hopefully today), and there are re-broadcasts running...but the info will not tell me which episode is re-broadcasting at what time! Very frustrating! So I set it to record the 18h00 episode. Chances are good that it will be E02. But why doesn't the info (or the synopsis or the description or the "blurb") include the original air date?? I just don't get that. And why did the show come right up the first time I searched for it...but never again?? Am I missing something??