Can anyone confirm this?

[Vegas_Steve]

I posted previously and sent in a ticket with no results forthcoming (other than a request for more info, which was stupid, imho, and now no response to what I sent back).
My issue is that all of my Tablo recordings start at the 15 second mark. This is on a FireTV stick and a Roku TV. While some networks pack junk into the first 15 seconds, some start on the dot or a bit before. When I rewind from the 15 second mark, sometimes it kicks me out of the app. I have two Tablo Duals and both exhibit the same behavior, so I’m thinking Tablo intentionally did this for some reason. This is getting really annoying and appears to be totally unnecessary.
Is anyone seeing the same thing and if so, is there a way to make the Tablo start at the 0:00:00 mark?

[djk44883]

yes
Here’s a post from someone figuring out how you can adjust start time, by a few seconds or minutes

New Recording Features

Well, did it myself… kind of a pain to do every time, but it looks like it works. Just manually added <option value="120">2 mins late</option> after using chrome’s inspect function and saved. It removed the conflict and assuming the Tablo functions as I would expect (adds the 120 seconds), it should work. [image]

While 15 seconds wouldn’t seem to kill a show for many, I do understand everyone has their own OCD issues we just can’t let go.

[TabloTV]

@Vegas_Steve

My issue is that all of my Tablo recordings start at the 15 second mark. While some networks pack junk into the first 15 seconds, some start on the dot or a bit before. When I rewind from the 15 second mark, sometimes it kicks me out of the app.

If there’s a tuner available, we’ll start up the tuner 15 seconds before the guide says the show is going to start.

When we play that recording back, the Tablo tells the player to start at at the + 15 second mark so that playback starts when the show is supposed to start.

If there are certain shows that you see start earlier than what’s in the guide, I’d suggest using the advanced recording option to tell the recording to start 2 minutes early.

[andersonas25]

Well what I see is playback starts 15 seconds into the recording. Most of the time that is still a commercial. But if I need to I can rewind back 15 seconds and it starts from the beginning with no problems.

Win10/Chrome and Nvidia Shield Android and Andriod preview apps

Currently on 2.2.28 but its been happening for a while

[Vegas_Steve]

Guess I just have to live with it. Extending recordings creates too many conflicts.

[snowcat]

I honestly had never noticed this before, but now I will never unsee that :15 at the start.

The explanation for doing it is interesting. The Tablo folks don’t trust the network start times, so they record bonus content that has to be unlocked via the rewind button.

[Vegas_Steve]

And I can understand why on show start times. It seems like some networks start and/or overlap shows by a couple minutes just to screw with us on recording. I mean, do you really need an extra minute of programming on shows? I think not. I just wish Tablo gave us the option of starting all shows at :00 vs the default :15.

[djk44883]

@Vegas_Steve

I mean, do you really need an extra minute of programming on shows? I think not. I just wish Tablo gave us the option of starting all shows at :00 vs the default :15.

You would think it was just that straight forward… there are various perspectives -

+/- 1 minute for start & end times

Continuing the discussion from Tablo needs a screensaver!: Replying to a post about “how much work would it be” …to add a screen saver. How about adding the option to adjust start and end times +/- 1 minute!?! Here’s some posts explaining how easy it is… for an end user to do it from New Recording Features. How much easier could it be for a coding technician to implement this? Here’s some discussion from 7:01 8:31 9:01 etc about how frustrating and the marketing behind the 1 minute overla…

Start/End Time - Conflict Resolution

Could really use the ability to adjust start and/or end times by minutes either early or later. Not all shows end on the half-hours and tablo seems to add a minute to recordings. So if show ends at 9:01pm and two start at 9:00pm I have a conflict. Currently the only resolution is to drop one. The only time options are to start early - or stop late. If I could start one a minute later or stop a minute early… conflict resolved! Give users the choice, loose an entire show, or just a m…

A hassle for one, is aggravating for another and only annoying for some, then there are those who just don’t get it.

[snowcat]

@Vegas_Steve

I just wish Tablo gave us the option of starting all shows at :00 vs the default :15.

What’s interesting is that if you have started playback of a recording and stop it (after at least 30 seconds), you do have the option to start at the beginning, which will be the :00 mark. You just don’t have that option in the beginning.

[theuser86]

@TabloTV

When we play that recording back, the Tablo tells the player to start at at the + 15 second mark so that playback starts when the show is supposed to start.

I always wondered why the playback of recordings started at 15 seconds in, it has never bothered me before so I never inquired about it lol

[Vegas_Steve]

Yeah, but who wants to watch 30 seconds of show and THEN go back to 0:00. It doesn’t seem like much of a chore for Tablo to give us the option to start at 0:00.

[Vegas_Steve]

Many times it doesn’t bother me either. Some networks fill that 15 seconds with promo/marketing junk, so no big deal. But some (I have 2) have intentionally started shows on the button, or even early/late if they juggle their lineups to start at the :59 mark or :01 mark. Obvious effort to screw DVRs.