Season Pass Trouble when shows end one min after the hour

[lkmontague]

I can't set up my Tivo to record a show when it is scheduled to begin one minute before the other one ends. How do I get around this? Why are some showtimes set up to end one minute AFTER the hour?

[JRAllas]

Does your Tivo have two tuners with two cables connected? If so, the only reason I can see for your problem is that you already have two other shows set to record during the same time. If that's not the case, your Tivo might be under the impression only one tuner is active. You might want to go through the Satellite Troubleshooting in the Setup menu. I think we need much more detail to figure out what's up.

JR Allas - Joliet, IL - USA

[Dkerr24]

I have no trouble with mine doing that... I just pad the show in the season pass settings by a minute to fix that.

Wondering if like said above, you only have one tuner active.

[ILoveCats&Tivo]

I’m not sure if this is what you are talking about, but ER records on Thursdays at 9:59 p.m. and since I am recording 2 shows at 9:00 p.m., ER would not record unless it was a higher priority than the other two, in which case one of them wouldn’t record. You can't ask Tivo to start recording one minute later, so the way I get around this is with a ‘manual record’ that I set up for every Thursday at 10:00 for that channel.

If the show you are worried about is the one running over a minute, unless you pad the ending, I don't know what else you can do. Are you concerned about missing a recording of another show after that? If so, you may have to choose between missing the end of one or the beginning of another and manual recording the one that you need to.

I am assuming that you are utilizing both of your tuners at this time, otherwise it wouldn't be a problem.

Good luck. I hate when the networks pull this crap.

[Hemi]

So what you're saying is that for example, you want to record Lost and CSI at 9:00 PM but they both run 1:01 minutes long (10:01 PM) so now you can not record Law & Order at 10:00 PM? Unfortunately, this is a limitation of TiVo. One way around it is to set up a manual recording from 10:05 to 11:00 PM and pad the start by 3 minutes.

Dan

[lkmontague]

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to reply -- the manual recording is obviously the answer. I'm clearly an unsophisticated Tivo user (which is why I use it, because it is typically so straight forward and easy). I didn't even know a manual recording option existed, until I just went searching for it!

I do hope that in the next software rewrite for Tivo, they give you the option to end a program early, so that you can avoid this problem.

[newsposter]

tivo 7 is the shortcut to manual...good luck

[tvn]

Newsposter, can you elaborate?

[tvn]

If you can start a show early in Manual record, and the show ends a minute earlier, you can have it stop "on time" and still be able to start another record at the top of the hour. Just don't pad the end because you already have the 1 minute pad by virtue of the network scheduling.

[newsposter]

Newsposter, can you elaborate?


instead of wading thru the menu to manual recording, just hit Tivo then 7 and it takes you right to it

all sorts of other shortcuts too. Tivo 1 is season pass...tivo 2 is ToDo ..tivo 3 is wishlist...tivo 4 is search..... tivo 0 on older units brings up the little tivo animation.

[aaronwt]

Get another TiVo. There is no way I can get all my shows with just one TiVo. I need at least two because of all the overlapping and sometimes there are 4 things on at the same time that I want to record.

[tvn]

Newsposter, Thank you. I've been with D*TV since 1995, and Tivo since the beginning, and I've never heard of those shortcuts. Thanks again.

[lonaman]

Any resolution to this other than to set-up a manual recording that will miss the first 5 minutes of the next recording?

[JimSpence]

And you have to ask the networks why they schedule their shows to end a minute after the hour.

I suspect they do that to screw up DVR owners. :)

[newsposter]

doesnt the new clipping feature have something to do with this?

maybe someone can explain clipping to us

[SpiritualPoet]

The reason networks run a program late by a minute or start one a minute early (or both) is to keep the viewer tuned into that particular network. I also hate it when local channels newscasts start between 9:57 and 9:59 p.m. Why? Because they want you to watch their specific newscast, not the competitors. (All of the local channels that have a ten o'clock newscast in my area do this constantly.)

[newsposter]

people are that lazy that they watch whatever is on a network just because the previous show runs over a minute - as you described? (vs actually changing the channel with a remote)

i cant believe that...if so that means people watch crap that dont like and it gets ratings that arent even deserved.