[mythtv-users] Enhancement request - conflict resolution

[Michael Greb]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:39:40AM -0400, Harry Orenstein wrote:
> This week I tried recording CSI followed by ER.? The problem was 
> that CSI runs from 9pm to 10pm and ER runs from 9:59pm to 11pm and 
> there was a conflict.? The only way I could resolve this and record 
> ER was to setup a manual recording starting at 10pm.

The funny thing here is that apparently this was done on purpose 
to target Tivo/PVR users.  See here:
<http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2003/09/nbc_launching_a.html> for a 
discussion of this issue.

> Has anyone ever considered allowing conflicts to be resolved by 
> indicating priority of one program over another but allowing the 
> portion of the lower priority program that is not in conflict to be 
> recorded anyway?? The example I have given may be an extreme example 
> of this but I could also see problems with shows that overlap by 10, 
> 15 or 30 minutes or maybe we could get into the whole "Heidi vs. 
> Super Bowl 2" thing.
> 
> This could either be a manual resolution (another option when 
> resolving conflicts) or a setting during setup (record 
> non-overlapping portions of conflicted programs).? Anyone want to 
> weigh in?

I do think your idea has some merit though.

Michael
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