Sunday evening padding reminder for TAR, Cold Case, and WaTrace fans....

[jlb]

Now, you might not like all three shows, but we do. We have two TiVos but I'll put all three SPs onto one TiVo. Then I can just pad WaT in case CBS football runs long........

[msdonnelly]

We'll be doing the same thing at our home. With Sunday Night Football on NBC that means we're not going to be using our second TiVo for anything on Sunday nights!

[Jodee]

I have been wondering about how I am going to work around this. I think what I have decided to do is rather than pad WaT by 1 hour, I will instead create a manual recording on CBS from 11pm-12pm. The reason I want to do it this way is that Without a Trace is a show I don't usually watch right away and I often have several sitting in the Tivo. This way, if the show does not run over I can delete the extra hour right away instead of having to waste 2 hours of space per WaT episode.

[jeff125va]

This works out better for me than last year. Since we watch Cold Case and WaT, I can just pad WaT and it most likely won't interfere with anything else. Last year, my pad for Cold Case usually screwed something up from 9:00-10:00 ET. Although we dropped Desperate Housewives while football was still going on.

I sorta like the manual recording idea. You could take it further and set one up from 11-11:30 and 11:30-12, or even smaller increments. Although I usually didn't have much of a problem last year checking the guide to see whether there was a late game on CBS, then padding Cold Case if there was. In fact, most weeks I was home and was able to see when 60 Minutes started and then set up a manual recording for Cold Case just long enough to catch all of it - usually had to be 1:05 long unless it started right on a 5-minute increment.

Then again, I did miss one episode of Cold Case (well, the last half of it) because I had forgotten all about padding it. Considering that it won't interfere with anything in the 11:00 hour, I think I like this recurring manual recording idea. Thanks!

[Lee L]

I have been wondering about how I am going to work around this. I think what I have decided to do is rather than pad WaT by 1 hour, I will instead create a manual recording on CBS from 11pm-12pm. The reason I want to do it this way is that Without a Trace is a show I don't usually watch right away and I often have several sitting in the Tivo. This way, if the show does not run over I can delete the extra hour right away instead of having to waste 2 hours of space per WaT episode.


Good idea. I might have to do that as well. We had the same issue with Cold Case last year as we were always a couple of episodes behind.

[jlb]

I have been wondering about how I am going to work around this. I think what I have decided to do is rather than pad WaT by 1 hour, I will instead create a manual recording on CBS from 11pm-12pm. The reason I want to do it this way is that Without a Trace is a show I don't usually watch right away and I often have several sitting in the Tivo. This way, if the show does not run over I can delete the extra hour right away instead of having to waste 2 hours of space per WaT episode.

Again, I have to agree this is seems like a better way to handle things than my original idea of padding WaT. If we don't get to watching WaT for a while, and it did not go over, then we just delete the manual recording......Cool!