Group Recording; Group Recording Overview; How Group Recording Works - Creative Video Blaster Digital VCR User Manual

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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):

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-

dard recording and a recording belonging to a Group.

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A two-ho ur Group re co rding i s set up on the Reco rd p age.

Whe n Pro gram 1 i s bro adcast, it is sa ved to d isk.

Pro grams 2 , 3, and 4 are record ed in the same manne r.

Al l fo ur sh ows are avail able for viewi ng.

Whe n the fifth p r ogram is broad ca st, Pro gram 1 i s remove d.

Ea ch a ddi tio nal recordi ng repla ces a pre vi ously saved Gro up recordin g

fil e.

G r o up Re co r d in g : H o w G r o u p Re co r d in g W o r k s

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