[mythtv-users] US Open Tennis - Dynamic Scheduling Request

[John Drescher]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:
>
> It is not all that uncommon for shows like 60 Minutes to run late due to
> some sports event or worse miss the end of a good tennis match which ran
> beyond the scheduled time. What was it 2 days ago I missed the end of a
> Nadal match and in the early rounds missed the end of a Federor match.
> Today 60 Minutes is 20-25 minutes late and the entire episode will be
> broadcast and if I don't manually extend the time I will miss 20-25 minutes
> of the program.
>
> Due to rain the US Open scheldule has been updated
> http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/weather.html, but it doesn't show the how
> many hours are scheduled.  I just manually ran mythfilldatabase to see if
> the tennis scheldules have been updated with scheldulesdirect and they have
> not.  Now I will need to manually add 4 different Tennis schedules to catch
> the rest of the US Open.
>
> Someone must have brought up these issues before.  For event type
> programming can we setup some sort of system where users could note the
> event is running long and when it ends and have myth reschedule as needed?
>
> Do Tivo or other DVR devices/services offer this type of dynamic
> rescheduling ?
>
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MythRecordingExtender

John