[mythtv-users] US Broadcasting bastards

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Lonnie Borntreger <myth at borntreger.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 10:23 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
>> I know the US TV broadcasters try anything they can to make it
>> extremely difficult for us to timeshift broadcasts / skip watching
>> their ads nowadays, and the one that really made me mad with directv
>> was the 2 minute late ending shows.  Their DVRs had no easy way to
>> stop the recording 2 minutes early, or start one 2 minutes late.  I am
>> sure they are in cahoots with the broadcasters on this one somehow :)
>>
>> Only start early, and end late.  Much to my dismay, mythtv is the same
>> way.  I can obviously do a manual entry that hits on the exact time,
>> but it is a pain to do it each time I see it.  Would be nice to have
>> those 2 options as well, rather than just the included 2 for start
>> early and end late..
>>
>> I guess what I am asking is if the "power rule" option is my only way
>> to accomplish this.  I do not have an issue creating the query - just
>> want to make sure it is the right/only way to accomplish this.
>
> When setting the recording, whether for one showing, weekly, all, or
> whatever; just go to the "scheduling options" and you can choose to
> change the start or end, early or late for either.
>
> Lonnie Borntreger

Hah - Thanks!  I guess I should stop relying on mythweb to schedule everything..

-Greg