Why does my Sky Q only live pause for an hour?
Why does my Sky Q only live pause for an hour?
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UTH

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12,332 posts

208 months

Tuesday 7th December 2021
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Is this a setting I can change somewhere, or is this just standard?

I have TV on in the background working from home, but also have zoom calls, so I pause it. Sometimes if the call goes on for over an hour, the TV suddenly just unpauses! I've checked and there's plenty of free space on the box, so it can't be the fact that it's full. I'm sure my old Sky+ could pause for hours if I needed it to.

Dogwatch

6,383 posts

252 months

Tuesday 7th December 2021
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It gets bored. Only way round it is to record the programme.

Buzz84

1,744 posts

179 months

Tuesday 7th December 2021
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My guess is that It will probably buffer the live pause footage into its memory rather than writing it to the hard drive.

xof

55 posts

101 months

Wednesday 8th December 2021
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Sky + only pauses for an hour. Still have using 4 of them 😎

UTH

Original Poster:

12,332 posts

208 months

Wednesday 8th December 2021
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Hmmm, maybe my memory is failing me then, I thought I used to pause things for AGES if I needed to go out shopping or whatever and would come back and just press play. But I might be wrong.

jonwm

2,744 posts

144 months

Thursday 9th December 2021
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Exactly the same for me, I used to recall it paused for absolute ages.

Teams call over ran and had free practice on last Friday (F1) and it suddenly un paused, I'm sure something has changed.