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Group Recording: How Group Recording Works
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Group Recording Overview
Group recording allows you to set up an automated task to record a set of programs at regular
intervals. Shows that fit your recording criteria will be recorded to disk without the need to
schedule each recording separately. Shows that are part of a recording Group are of lower pri-
ority than standard individually-scheduled recordings. As long as there is unallocated hard disk
space available, Group recordings will continue until your disk is filled. Then, once filled, the
recording space is reclaimed and reused by eliminating the oldest Group recordings.
As an example, imagine that you want to record episodes of a favorite half-hour comedy pro-
gram so that you always have a few shows available for viewing. And, for the purpose of this
simplified illustration, assume that there is two hours of recording time available on the sys-
tem’s hard disk allocated to Digital VCR (your “virtual tape”). By setting up a two-hour Group
recording, up to four episodes of the program would be available. The programs in your Group
would be constantly refreshed as other episodes are broadcast.
Here’s a simple Group example (see the diagram below):
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A two-hour Group recording is set up on the Record page.
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When Program 1 is broadcast, it is saved to disk.
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Programs 2, 3, and 4 are recorded in the same manner.
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All four shows are available for viewing.
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When the fifth program is broadcast, Program 1 is removed.
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Each additional recording replaces a previously saved Group recording
file.
How Group Recording Works
Group recording is slightly more complex than the simple example given above. There are
actually two different types of recordings that are possible when using the Digital VCR, a
stan-
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recording and a recording belonging to a
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