Tivo and shows that run long

longball07 · 10-29-2009, 11:20 PM

This happens every single Thursday night. Start recording Community from 7:00-7:30 and the show always runs about 20-40 seconds over. I don't usually miss anything because I record all four sitcoms on NBC on thursday nights but it drives me nuts when one recording stops and the next starts right in the middle of dialogue. It always cuts out words.

So what do people do in this type of situation. Do you set the season pass to stop recording 1 minute later. Then you cut out part of the dialogue during the next show. this drives me nuts.

Just curious as to what other people do for this problem. Stupid NBC

orangeboy · 10-29-2009, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by longball07

This happens every single Thursday night. Start recording Community from 7:00-7:30 and the show always runs about 20-40 seconds over. I don't usually miss anything because I record all four sitcoms on NBC on thursday nights but it drives me nuts when one recording stops and the next starts right in the middle of dialogue. It always cuts out words.

So what do people do in this type of situation. Do you set the season pass to stop recording 1 minute later. Then you cut out part of the dialogue during the next show. this drives me nuts.

Just curious as to what other people do for this problem. Stupid NBC

I don't know if you have an HD model, or dual tuner, but if nothing is recording on the other tuner, the next show will start recording on time on the unused tuner. If you have a single tuner, then yeah, it sucks.

steve614 · 10-30-2009, 01:09 AM

Yeah, this happens with the FOX line-up on Sunday nights too.
I have to start The Simpsons one minute early or I miss what Bart has to write on the chalkboard. I also have to add one minute to the end if I want to catch the credits.
Doing this sometime screws up other recordings due to the clipping feature.
In this example, since I've padded The Simpsons, King of the Hill starts recording on the 2nd tuner, and another show recording at that time gets clipped because of the padding of The Simpsons.
With dual tuners, I wish back to back recordings on the same channel would stay on the same tuner. Adding one minute to The Simpsons would actually "sync'' up the rest of the recordings that are back to back on that channel.

taronga · 10-30-2009, 06:45 AM

You could set up a manual recording covering all four shows.

reneg · 10-30-2009, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by longball07

So what do people do in this type of situation. Do you set the season pass to stop recording 1 minute later. Then you cut out part of the dialogue during the next show. this drives me nuts.

Just curious as to what other people do for this problem. Stupid NBC

With my hand firmly wrapped around the remote, I raise it over my head, shaking it violently while cursing at the networks through my TV. I have the same reaction when the networks pad their schedules and it messes up my season passes.

Neil 420 · 10-30-2009, 12:33 PM

Yeah, my wife watches two live reality TV shows and sometimes the elimination isn't announced until a few seconds after the show is supposed to end. Since two shows have this problem, I would need a four tuner Tivo.

TerpBE · 10-30-2009, 01:16 PM

Last year on the final episode of American Idol, they announced, "And the winner of American Idol is.....David...{BONG....Delete Now?}"

Kablemodem · 10-30-2009, 03:29 PM

American Idol is a live show and the finale always goes over, so you need to extend your recording.

hefe · 10-30-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by steve614

Yeah, this happens with the FOX line-up on Sunday nights too.
I have to start The Simpsons one minute early or I miss what Bart has to write on the chalkboard. I also have to add one minute to the end if I want to catch the credits.
Doing this sometime screws up other recordings due to the clipping feature.

Remember the old days when padding wouldn't just clip a show, but cause it not to record?

...good times...

mattack · 10-30-2009, 09:02 PM

I try to add padding to as *many* shows as I can. Since I have a TivoHD & Series 3, I pretty much can pad everything nowadays.. (I would still prefer more tuners, so I could pad ABSOLUTELY everything.)

Some other truisms:
Pad everything on Discovery and E! by one minute late.
Pad Letterman & the TS by I think 2 minutes.. (this is the only case where I *like* clipping -- I let the next 2 shows clip, since I just FF through 99% of them anyway.. I check the To Do list for clipping in other cases and make manual adjustments to not have shows clipped..)

Daily Show needs a minute or two post-pad (the later airings may need MORE depending on what tricks Comedy Central is playing this week.) Colbert actually seems to *mostly* run in its allotted time (except some of the credits), but I still leave a minute or two pad on the SP.

I have like a 4 minute pre-pad and 5 minute post-pad for GameTrailersTV. It has some weird official start time, but seems to usually start *early*.

Those are the ones that pop to mind!

bigpatky · 10-31-2009, 01:35 AM

i swear the networks are messing with us dvr users. the odd start and ending times seem to happen more and more often.