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

Chad masterclc at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 03:19:17 UTC 2006


> This sort of thing happens, and will continue to happen.  The goal of
> a good UI is to stop that.      It would not have happened on the
> Tivo, for example, the Tivo would have popped up a warning saying,
> "This conflicts with the movie".

I don't disagree with a lot of your points, but I don't think you are
correct on some either.  For example, I think that TiVO (at least the
few I've used) don't have a post-pre record option.  So, the conflict
wouldn't occur because of the lack of that feature.

Another reason why I don't agree with this approach is that if the
user is "intelligent" enough to be tweaking pre-post roll recording
options, they ought to at least have the vaguest idea of how to view
what changes are being made to their recording schedule.  I don't
necessarily think that you have to be a networking guru to know how to
write webpages, obviously.  But this is more like not knowing how to
use Linux and yet still knowing how to build a kernel.  I doubt that
this demographic is very large ;-)

-Chad


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