Be Aware of 2018 Shows

I had a "d'oh!" moment earlier this week when I noticed that many of my recorded shows were missing their final punchlines for a few days--I just couldn't understand why the broadcasters suddenly were playing around with the start and stop times again, as part of their audience tactics. Took me a couple of days to realize, "Ah, TiVo!"--and a forced connection fixed matters.

 

TiVo could make what would likely be a pretty simple update that would cause TiVos to perform a time sync more often - why not once per hour, and/or ~5-10 minutes before the next scheduled recording? It's not like performing a time sync is bandwidth or processor intensive.

 

based on what's happening now with one daily connection, i'm not seeing the advantage of 24.

 

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Heh... I'm working under the assumption that the daily call correctly syncs the TiVo's time, but then at some point between then and the next day's call, there's a time drift. So if that's the case, then if they increased the syncs to happening at let's say 5-10 minutes before the top of each hour, it should be a decent enough band-aid to the time drift.

 

The VCM connections still happen about every four hours. I have no clue what they do, but they do it regularly.

I speculate it has something to do with TiVo Online.

 

That's a false assumption. When it hits a bad server, it resets to a bad time. It's not internal drift that's causing this.

 

Ah, got it.

 

I hope they get it together with guide data. The only good thing is that it airs on both of the aforementioned channels so you can find more airings after your Pass misses them.

Oops, must have been another thread where I read that - it's on Fox TV and FXX at different times.