[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this(overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?

[Steve Daniels]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Peter Schachte
> Sent: 28 July 2006 11:35
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do
> this(overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?
> 
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:31:27AM -0700, Brad Templeton wrote:
> > I think in general that when most people add padding, they don't
> > mean "and don't record another show I asked for if it would interfere
> > with the padding."    They might mean that sometimes, but I suspect
> > they mean, "pad if you can" most of the time and only rarely
> > "pad, and damn the torpedoes."
> 
> In Australia most prime time shows on the commercial networks start
> and late, often by 5 or more minutes.  To make matters somewhat worse,
> some networks tend to make their shows start 5 or 10 minutes past the
> half hour.  And shows often start immediately after the end of the
> previous show, with no intervening commercials.  Put together, if you
> don't record 5 to 10 minutes past the scheduled end of a show, you
> stand a better than even chance of missing the end.  Not good for WAF.

Or another solution... campaign for Australian networks to get the arses
into gear! (This is a meant mostly as a joke.. but I do wonder why they can
get away with it? It would seem coming from a country which in my view has
near perfect epg data available, that it would be easier for them as well if
they stuck to a schedule?)

Steve Daniels

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