Tivo questions..

[Andrea]

hey guys i got a tv for christmas and i love it, but i just noticed that the late late late night shows i have recorded like the golden girls they came on at 3:30am well it recordered part of the last show of whatever it was.. and then it cut the end of it off and i cant figure it out. It was not just that show almost all the ones i recorded really late at night cut off. but my normal shows that i recorded at say like 5pm recorded everything..

any advice ?

 

[Beth76]

You should be able to adjust your "stop recording" time. Look under "recording options" and you should be able to add minutes onto your recordings

 

[Andrea]

well i did that, i changed it to record 5 mins before and 6 mins after and like i said all the "normal" time stuff works great its just the really late night shows... and i just checked and it should be recording the simpsons and i just put it on and the "tv guide" says the simpsons but football is still on...so its recording that lol

does that make any sense ?

 

[clh2]

It absolutely makes sense to me.

FWIW, I LOVE our tivo. But anytime there is something stupid on like football, where sometimes the end time is at 6:22,instead of 6:00, the programming all gets delayed by the 22 minutes. Unfortunately, TIVO (which our updates every night through our home computer network) gets the schedule every night about 2am. So if at the last minute, the president has an unnanounced speech, or football gets delayed, your Tivo will not know about the last minute stuff.


Hope this helps.

BTW - even though I know this happens, I screwed up on my season pass with the Amazing Race BIG TIME due to football.

 

[Beth76]

yes, tivo is only as good as the schedule it receives each night. If something changes (ie goes overtime), tivo can not possibly know. Also, sometimes the tivo time and the network time are a minute off and shows might cut off early. So you'll have to learn to "pad" certain shows with extra time--especially Sunday night shows.

 

[Andrea]

oh ok thanks guys

 

[betsywdw]

The one thing I have noticed for the late night shows that I watch on Nick is that they start at really odd times even though the guide has them set for the normal half hour increments. Last night I went to watch the Fresh Prince and it was 11:45 and a new episode was just starting although it was showing it should go from 11:30 to 12:00. Strange! Same thing has happened with Three's Company.

 

[Andrea]

The one thing I have noticed for the late night shows that I watch on Nick is that they start at really odd times even though the guide has them set for the normal half hour increments. Last night I went to watch the Fresh Prince and it was 11:45 and a new episode was just starting although it was showing it should go from 11:30 to 12:00. Strange! Same thing has happened with Three's Company.

yeah it was nick at nite and also lifetime

 

[iloveboardwalk]

yes, tivo is only as good as the schedule it receives each night. If something changes (ie goes overtime), tivo can not possibly know. Also, sometimes the tivo time and the network time are a minute off and shows might cut off early. So you'll have to learn to "pad" certain shows with extra time--especially Sunday night shows.

I actually have a "conspiracy theory" behind this phenomenon! I think the advertisers PAY the networks to screw with us in retaliation for never watching their stupid commericvlas anymore!!

But, in all seriousness, some networks do it on purpose. A few years back, ER started running at 9:59. I can't remember what show this conflicted with...something that ran from 9-10...but it was when I had just the one DVR. The other show would not record because it "conflicted" with ER even though it was only for a minute. I think some networks did/do this to keep people tuned to their stations. I solved the problem by discontinuing ER, so poop on NBC!!

 

[bicker]

TiVo just released a software update (you should either already have it or will get it soon, if you're still paying for service) that actually puts in an extra prompt for sporting events, to see if you want to pad the end in case it runs long. Unfortunately, it won't prompt you for recordings on that channel after the sporting event ... you'll have to remember to do that yourself.

Incidentally, the reason for 9:59 or 10:01 stuff is not to mess up DVR users. Rather, this allowed the network to include the audience for the longer program into one more half-hour of the audience statistics for the network. It is a way for the network to make its numbers look better to advertisers.

TiVo has addressed this issue, by adding "clipping" to their software: Any time there is an overlap between two programs of just a few minutes or so, it'll clip the lower-priority program, so both programs will be recorded.

 

[iloveboardwalk]

Incidentally, the reason for 9:59 or 10:01 stuff is not to mess up DVR users. Rather, this allowed the network to include the audience for the longer program into one more half-hour of the audience statistics for the network. It is a way for the network to make its numbers look better to advertisers.

I'm still calling it a conspiracy!! AND, I'm still not going to watch the commericials!!