Do you have the "new and improved" DTV system with a big triangular base and the little Genie mini receivers? I do, and while I seem to "lose" recorded programs, they are really there. They just don't show up on the list. Certain shows seem to drop off the list with regularity. We record Antiques Roadshow to watch at our leisure, and it frequently does not show up. We reboot the Genie mini, and everything returns. Really a PITA.
No, we just have a standard box in the living room. My wife had discovered the same thing, that the show was “there” but you actually had to do a search to find it. Kind of stupid. There are some things I liked after the last update, like where it would break out what you had recorded into different categories, and how much of them you had watched.
The remote is really aggravating now. I have to hit the FF button several times before it even does anything while watching a program, and then sometimes, when it “catches up” it actually fast-forwards to the end of the show or movie. And then I have to start over again from the beginning.
Sometimes our other room’s “receivers” just … stop working, or the audio in the main room gets this very weird, robot-like sound to the voices. Then I have to reset the boxes. This happens sometimes two or three times a week.
I am beginning to wonder if all of these systems are quirky in one way or another.