[mythtv-users] WAF factor just plummetted, I need to make a strange rule.

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 15:46:33 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:

> On January 29, 2009, Steve Heistand wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:21:11 -0400, Mark J. Small wrote
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > Last night my wife and I sat down to watch a movie that I had recorded
> > > recently.  It was Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood version of Jane
> > > Austen. It was on CBC (Canada eh!) at 1:00 AM sometime in the past few
> > > weeks.
> > >
> > > Well, the schedule information was not quite right and the recording
> > > stopped after 2 hours.  So we missed the end of the movie.  Since this
> is
> > > the sort of movie that is not likely to be carried at the corner store
> or
> > > the gas station (our local DVD options), my wife was quite frustrated
> > > that we'll likely never get to see the end of the movie.
> > >
> > > So I need to set a strange recording rule to make sure that this
> doesn't
> > > happen again.  Here is what I would like.
> > >
> > > If I'm recording a movie
> > >     If the channel goes off air after the movie
> > >             Add an extra hour to the recording.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to create such a rule?
> >
> > netflix has the movie if you are signed up with them.
> >
> >
> Well, netflix doesn't do Canada (eh).  As a mythtv user, I rarely rent
> dvd's
> anymore anyway.  There are tons of good movies shown on the TV and, if I
> record from a Canadian channel, they are mostly unedited.  I just have to
> be
> more careful about ending times now.  I missed a large chunk of MASH (the
> movie) last summer too.


There's always zip.ca *stifles a small snicker*.  I know that I certainly
don't need a premium movie package or even a premium cable package with
Netflix.  Far cheaper and much  more worthwhile.

Kevin
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